How the CIO Role Is Shifting in the Agentic AI Era
CIO Dive, Friday, September 11th, 2026
CIOs must define where agents may act autonomously and where they must be kept out of operations entirely.
The CIO's job in an agentic environment is increasingly to define the scenarios in which agents can operate with full autonomy, those where they need human confirmation, and those where they should be kept out of operations entirely.
That is a business-risk judgment rather than a technical one, and it has to be made per process rather than as a blanket policy.
The article covers how technology leaders are working with business owners to draw those lines, and why leaving the decision to individual teams produces inconsistent risk exposure across the organization.