{"id":36843,"date":"2026-06-11T18:08:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=36843"},"modified":"2026-06-11T18:08:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:08:31","slug":"rapid-business-ai-growth-is-leaving-security-controls-behind-ibm","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/rapid-business-ai-growth-is-leaving-security-controls-behind-ibm\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapid business AI growth is leaving security, controls behind: IBM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giant IBM warns that the blistering pace of artificial intelligence (AI) deployment across the business world is sharpening fears that the AI boom is rapidly running ahead of the systems needed to control it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The findings arrive amidst intense global investor debate over whether massive financial spending on AI infrastructure can generate returns fast enough to justify lofty stock market valuations. New research by the company reveals that organisations are aggressively moving past small-scale AI pilots into enterprise-wide deployment, even as internal governance, security safeguards, and oversight processes struggle to keep pace.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to Sebastian Weir, AI Lead at IBM, unlocking true value from the technology requires looking far beyond the software itself. Weir points out that the real challenge lies in understanding the structural role AI plays within an organisation and adapting operational controls accordingly, noting that maximizing AI is not a technology problem, but a people problem.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36844,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-36843","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"AI boom is rapidly running ahead of the systems needed to control it","published_date":"2026-06-11 17:48:17","news_description":"AI boom is rapidly running ahead of the systems needed to control it","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/36843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/36843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36845,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/36843\/revisions\/36845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=36843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}