Overview
- At the Loymark Future Ready Summit, a regional report found 78% of companies claim to use AI but fewer than 1% do so effectively at scale, citing isolated pilots, trend-driven decisions and diffuse ROI as main causes.
- Check Point Research’s 2025 AI Security Report, presented at RSA Conference, details four attacker vectors: advanced social engineering, data poisoning, generative-aided malware and malicious LLM variants like FraudGPT and WormGPT.
- Industry practitioners report that about 70% of AI projects attempted in 2024 failed, attributing outcomes to the lack of strategy, cultural adoption and organizational change, and advocating ‘functional’ AI tied to data quality, process orchestration, human-in-the-loop oversight and governance.
- A World Economic Forum study projects roughly 170 million new jobs over the next decade even as other analyses warn of significant displacement, prompting companies to prioritize reskilling, inclusive hiring and education partnerships.
- Education systems are responding, with Peru’s UPC launching an Artificial Intelligence Engineering degree that includes access to three Google Cloud certifications and industry-aligned training.