🧠 The Real Status of AI Agent Adoption Revealed

These are the findings of experts from the consulting firm Technology of Trust (TeDo) in their study, “AI Agents: Current Realities and Prospects in Russian Business.”

The primary obstacle to adopting autonomous AI agents remains business process unreadiness and management resistance. According to the TeDo survey, only 13% of domestic business leaders are willing to relinquish control over neural network decisions entirely, while the vast majority remain wary of full algorithmic autonomy. The situation is further compounded by a lack of funding: most enterprises allocate no more than 3% of their total investment budget to AI.

Among the key conclusions of the study, experts highlight several defining trends:

• A Shift in the Human Role: Instead of crafting complex prompts, humans are transitioning to defining intents and goals, leaving the autonomous AI agent to independently formulate plans and select tools.
• The Platform Approach: Point-solution chatbots have reached the limits of their effectiveness. The future belongs to comprehensive AI agent platforms that establish a unified framework for managing hybrid human-machine teams.
• GPU Shortages and the Cloud Boom: Hardware constraints in the GPU market have made cloud computing rentals the key driver of growth—this sector reached 17 billion rubles in 2025, with experts anticipating exponential expansion ahead.
• Synthetic Data: As human-generated datasets approach exhaustion, AI providers are shifting to large-scale synthetic data generation to train their algorithms.
• The Struggle for Data Governance: Cybersecurity risks (a concern for 30% of companies) and poor corporate data quality could lead to the freezing of up to 60% of immature AI projects.

The authors of the report emphasize that the future evolution of this technology will demand a massive increase in compute capacity—by up to a factor of 10,000—alongside a shift in government AI regulation from voluntary ethical guidelines to mandatory regulatory requirements and compliance audits.