Agentic AI Projects Face 40% Cancellation Risk Over Safety Gaps

Gartner predicts over 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by 2027, primarily due to inadequate risk controls rather than cost or ROI. The main failure is evidence override, where models ignore correct retrieved data, leading to confident but wrong outputs. This quiet failure mode is especially dangerous in regulated industries like fintech and healthtech, where compliance reviews can kill projects.