AI Won’t Run Enterprises Out of the Box: Cognizant’s Babak Hodjat on Agentic Systems & Enterprise AI

In this conversation with Fortune India, Babak Hodjat, Chief AI Officer at Cognizant Technology Services, explains why AI adoption in enterprises is as much an engineering challenge as it is a technological one.

He discusses the rise of agentic, multi-agent systems, the gap between rapid AI innovation and real-world enterprise adoption, and why off-the-shelf AI cannot be blindly trusted.

Hodjat also highlights key concerns around data security, non-determinism, governance, and the need for new disciplines like agent engineering. The conversation, hosted by Fortune India, offers a grounded view on how enterprises can safely and reliably scale AI.

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