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Generative AI’s Invisible Undercurrents: 10 Blind Spots CIOs Aren’t Watching but Should

“Generative AI is a top priority for CIOs with aspirations to embed it in every tool or workflow imaginable. While there are still far less AI deployments in production than CIOs desire, on the surface, it looks like enterprises are going all in on GenAI as it has already leaped ahead of other AI techniques and is almost on par with machine learning (ML) in enterprise adoption.
 
However, lurking underneath these rapid deployments could be invisible undercurrents. Most CIOs today are focused on obvious challenges – business value, governance, security and data readiness. But what’s being missed are the invisible undercurrents, the second-and-third order effects that don’t show up in the dashboards.”
 
This research exposes 10 critical blind spots CIOs must urgently bring into focus. For each, Gartner® assesses why it is happening, forecasts what happens if they’re ignored and what it takes to get ahead. “The most successful organization will not merely accelerate the adoption of GenAI but they will re-engineer the organization for its aftershocks and devise robust strategies to mitigate these blind spots.”
 
Gartner, Generative AI’s Invisible Undercurrents: 10 Blind Spots CIOs Aren’t Watching but Should By Arun Chandrasekaran, 07 Aug 2025
 

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