OneTrust Releases 2026 AI-Ready Governance Report Results
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OneTrust released its 2026 AI-Ready Governance Report covering how organizations manage governance as AI systems and agents are used more widely across the business. The report uses survey results to describe a gap between AI adoption and oversight and how risk management efforts are affected.
The findings come from a second annual report based on a survey of 1,200 senior business decisionmakers across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Australia, and Singapore. The research was conducted by Sapio Research on behalf of OneTrust, with the report focusing on operational risk and risk management workloads.
According to the survey, 87% of organizations encourage AI agent use, while 47% report having clear governance, oversight, and controls in place. The report also states that 28% of organizations experienced two or more incidents in the past year in which AI systems or agents took unapproved actions, and 86% reported at least one measured AI-related incident such as sensitive data or intellectual property exposure, unapproved employee AI use, misinformation, or data loss.
The report links governance friction to unapproved usage and changes to incident response. It says 33% of organizations have seen employees use unapproved AI because approved tools or processes were not available quickly enough, while 49% of respondents cited increased employee training and 27% said they would pause or slow AI deployment. It also reports that 80% of respondents said managing AI-related risk takes more time than 12 months earlier, and 98% plan to increase budgets for technologies used to govern AI in the next financial year. “Every company is trying to hold on to two things at once: the speed they are getting from AI, and control over what AI does,” said Blake Brannon, Chief Innovation Officer at OneTrust. “The research says most are losing the second while working harder than ever to keep it. That is a design problem, not a staffing problem.” Brannon added, “Governance has always relied on knowing in advance what a system will do. AI, however, is faster, there is far more of it, and the same request can be helpful in one context and harmful in another. Static rules worked for governance when a person made every decision. Now, judgment has to live in the runtime itself, deciding and enforcing in the moment AI acts, and standing apart from the tools it governs.”
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