But there are many stumbling blocks along the way. Businesses are overwhelmed with trying to redesign their workflows and decide what information agentic AI programs should have access to.

A consequence of the challenges, database technology giant Databricks noted in its recent State of AI Agents report, is that "Only 19% of organizations have deployed AI agents, and mostly to a limited extent."

"If you talk to a lot of chief financial officers, they will tell you, 'I have three concerns'," Craig Wiley, the head of AI for Databricks, told ZDNET.

"Can you control it, can you tell me if it's any good [meaning, does what comes out of the model actually provide value], and how much does it cost?"