Decommissioning AI Agents: What to Look For in the Tooling
Gartner predicted in mid-2025 that more than forty percent of agentic AI projects would be canceled by the end of 2027, citing escalating costs, unclear business value and inadequate risk controls. Treat the figure as a forward-looking estimate rather than a measurement, since canceled projects tend to be quietly renamed, absorbed or left to lapse rather than formally closed.