{"id":485844,"date":"2026-02-17T13:49:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/485844\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T13:49:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:49:20","slug":"ceo-of-european-company-that-was-forced-to-sell-its-american-business-this-year-has-a-warning-for-everyone-says-you-dont-want-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/485844\/","title":{"rendered":"CEO of European company that was forced to sell its American business this year has a warning for everyone, says: You don\u2019t want to be \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CEOImage credit: X (Twitter) Capgemini CEO Aiman Ezzat has warned business leaders against racing too far ahead on AI adoption. He said that companies risk investing in capabilities no one wants. Ezzat, who leads the French Fortune 500 technology and consultancy firm, said executives are increasingly experiencing FOMO (fear of missing out) over applied AI, with financial bets large enough to concern boards over capital expenditure implications. In an interview with Fortune, Ezzat said that business leaders must find a balance between moving too far, too fast, and remaining stuck on the starting blocks.\u201cYou don’t want to be too ahead of the learning curve. If [you are] you’re investing and building capabilities that nobody wants,\u201d he told FortuneThe comments come as Capgemini has faced challenges this year, including the sale of its US subsidiary, Capgemini Government Solutions, which had been providing tracing and removal data for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The company’s share price has declined amid broader tech selloff concerns over AI spending. Ezzat explained on LinkedIn that the American business acted autonomously to protect US classified information. However, the interview with Ezzat took place before the ICE controversy emerged.<\/p>\n

Why Capgemini CEO thinks AI progress will be gradual and not sudden<\/p>\n

Capgemini\u2019s CEO says AI development is expected to progress gradually rather than through a sudden shift. Drawing on experience with earlier technology trends, such as the metaverse, the company views experimentation and limited pilots as a more practical way to adopt emerging technologies. Capgemini is currently testing areas including 6G, quantum computing, and robotics, while acknowledging that it remains uncertain which of these will deliver long-term value.\u201cIs everything ready to mature? No. But we want to be there to be able to see when things start to mature, when we can really start scaling up, not waiting to see, \u2018Okay, oh, now it\u2019s moving.\u2019 We have to do something, right? So, you have to be investing\u2014but not too much\u2014to be able to be aware of the technology, following at the speed to make sure that we are ready to scale when the adoption starts to accelerate,\u201d Ezzat explained.\u201cAI is a business. It is not a technology,\u201d Ezzat says, cautioning that leaders often view AI as a \u201cblack box that\u2019s being managed separately.\u201d While there are technologies behind it, he argues that the focus should be on business change rather than isolated technical use. AI, he says, should not be limited to maintaining existing operations.\u201cThe question you [the CEO] have to focus on is: \u2018How can your business be significantly disrupted by AI?\u2019 Not \u2018How is your finance team going to become more efficient?\u2019 I\u2019m sure your CFO will deal with that at the end of the day,\u201dEzzat noted.\u201cHow do you deal with what we call AI-human-centricity? Basically, the need to integrate AI with humans. How do you get humans to trust the agent? The agent can trust the human, but the human doesn\u2019t really trust the agent,\u201dEzzat added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image credit: X (Twitter) Capgemini CEO Aiman Ezzat has warned business leaders against racing too far ahead on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,245903,245901,254,255,64,63,245900,245908,245899,245906,245905,245904,245907,245902,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-485844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-development-trends","10":"tag-aiman-ezzat-warning","11":"tag-artificial-intelligence","12":"tag-artificialintelligence","13":"tag-au","14":"tag-australia","15":"tag-business-leaders-ai-strategy","16":"tag-capgemini","17":"tag-capgemini-ai-adoption","18":"tag-capgemini-government-solutions","19":"tag-fomo-ai-adoption","20":"tag-integrating-ai-with-humans","21":"tag-machine-learning-investment","22":"tag-tech-investment-risks","23":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}