The Single Biggest Barrier to AI Adoption Isn't the Technology — It's This | Errol Gardner of EY

Most organizations have embraced the cloud and have moved most of what's movable to the cloud. It seems like it's sort of morphing into a a new industry. The single biggest impediment for any organization changing is usually something related to the human beings. It could be the leaders. It could be the sponsors. It could be middle managers. It could be the workers. It could be whole it could be a combination of. There's huge anxiety in the workforce about whether AI effectively is going to dis displace their job. Okay. Well, I'm interested in talking because I speak quite a bit to one of the other big consulting firms. I actually do some, writing for them. And so I have a good sense of of what how they view, this world, the new AI and particularly a Gentic world. And I thought this would be an opportunity to hear from, you guys, how you see the corporate landscape, the penetration of AI in, production in large corporations, and in particular, Agentic Systems. Because the you know, I I end up having a lot of startups on the podcast, and they're all selling systems, and they all say, oh, it's you know, everyone's using our system. But, you know, when you get beyond an agent, you know, watching your e email inbox, I'd it gets more complicated, and I'm I just that's what I'm interested in. So, usually, I have the guest start by introducing themselves, giving a little bit of their background and so far as it's relevant, or, either consulting or AI. And then maybe you can start by talking about view or or thesis on what's happening with AI in the workforce or in enter in the enterprise, I should say. Well, thank you for having me. It's it's great to be speaking to you about this, the, arguably the hottest topic, in most, corporate environments, government environments, and many other organizations. So my name is Errol Gardner. I lead our consulting business here at globally. I've been doing that for about six years. I've been in this industry for over thirty five years. So I've seen a number of different technology trends during that time, and probably can look at AI in the context of many things that have been historically spoken about as changing the world very rapidly, and then maybe give some context on that. But look forward to talking to you about all these different topics. And maybe just start in terms of, how I see AI currently within the corporate environment and what businesses are doing and how they're responding to that. I think the first thing maybe just to to highlight, is is actually the reality that change within large organizations is very difficult to execute. So, anybody who references or or pretends that to be otherwise, I think, is, either has never done it before, or potentially, maybe being slightly economical with what is achievable. And there are lots …