# Companies want autonomous IT operations but hesitate to let AI act alone

> Source: <https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/10/09/move-toward-autonomous-it-operations/>
> Published: 2026-10-09 04:30:25+00:00

Ninety percent of companies want to move toward autonomous IT operations over the next two years, with agentic AI, software that plans and carries out multi-step tasks on its own, doing the work. Yet 77 percent say their own organization hesitates to let AI make an operational decision without a human approving it. Most of those companies mean autonomy with a person at the approval step, and few have the groundwork for even that. Only … [More](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/10/09/move-toward-autonomous-it-operations/) 

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