Enterprise AI adoption stats clash: 31% vs 60% vs 74% — the reports measure different things
A consultant comparing 2026 AI implementation reports found wildly different adoption figures: 31% of enterprises with an agent in production (Digital Applied), nearly 60% (G2), and 74% planning agentic AI within two years (Deloitte). The thread's takeaway: the numbers aren't disagreeing — 'in production' means different things to each source. The trustworthy metric is how many agents have real error budgets, monitoring, and human fallback.