Risks from AI Implementation and Scaling: Opportunity Meets Operational Reality Risks from AI Implementation and Scaling: Opportunity Meets Operational Reality AI has become one of modern business's defining paradoxes. It's a major strategic opportunity and, at the same time, a rapidly growing source of enterprise risk. Investment in AI is massive, yet an ever-growing body of evidence shows that implementing and scaling AI brings a raft of new, complex, interlinked risks. In the NC State University and Protiviti Executive Perspectives on Top Risks survey for 2027, the 'emergence of new risks from the implementation of AI' was the second biggest near-term concern for boards and C-suite executives (only cyber risk was higher). It moved up from 6th the previous year and 10th the year before that, and it is the only risk ranked 2nd across all organization sizes. Allianz's Risk Barometer 2026 saw the largest single move in any risk category,...