Two-thirds of AI-using knowledge workers build their own agents without IT approval

A Howdy.com survey found 16% of knowledge workers using AI have started building their own agents, often without IT approval. About a quarter of agent users had to deactivate them due to inconsistent output, and 7% had to kill agents that went rogue.

• Two-thirds of knowledge workers using AI also use agents
• 16% of respondents have begun building their own AI agents
• About 25% of agent users deactivated them over failures
• 7% of employees had to kill agents that went rogue