Research Reveals "Trust Gap" Threatening Agentic AI Adoption
FutureCIO, Tuesday, April 21st, 2026
Denodo research finds organizations face critical barriers to agentic AI adoption due to data trust and governance challenges.
Denodo's AI Trust Gap Report reveals that agentic AI deployment faces a critical trust crisis, with 63% of organizations identifying data relevance and preparation as significant barriers and 66% requiring near real-time data access.
Technical hurdles including AI data security, access controls, and performance optimization at scale are major obstacles, with 67% of organizations struggling with security concerns and over 40% pulling from more than 400 data sources. The research, conducted globally by Arlington Research, highlights that organizations must move beyond static data silos to adopt live, governed, and contextually relevant information systems to successfully scale agentic AI with confidence.