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The State of AI Governance
The State of AI Governance: The Enterprise Governance Gap - Trillions of Tokens, Zero Governance explores how rapidly enterprise AI adoption is outpacing the controls needed to govern it. Based on anonymized production
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- 28 Sept 2026
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The State of AI Governance: The Enterprise Governance Gap - Trillions of Tokens, Zero Governance explores how rapidly enterprise AI adoption is outpacing the controls needed to govern it. Based on anonymized production traffic from hundreds of organizations using Kong AI Gateway, the report provides a production-level view of how enterprises are consuming, routing, and governing AI.
Discover key insights into multi-model AI adoption, model and provider usage, industry-specific AI trends, governance gaps, and the emerging agent economy. The report highlights that 62% of organizations run two or more AI models in production, while less than 1% of organizations in the data have AI-specific governance controls in place. 6a844dbd-report the-state-of
Learn what organizations with AI governance in place are doing differently, how prompt-injection guards and request/response controls are being applied, and why establishing governance at the AI traffic layer is becoming increasingly important as AI agents and workloads scale.
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