Parminder Singh, chief executive of Reliance Enterprise Intelligence, said industry is now entering the second phase where enterprises need help answering more fundamental questions. They first need to determine which model best suits each workflow instead of defaulting to the latest frontier model. \u201cThe winners on the podium will continue to keep changing. Don\u2019t get too excited by a particular model,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
For financial services, where a single AI error could have significant consequences, security can no longer be treated as an afterthought, said Ambarish Kenghe, group CEO of stock trading and broking platform Angel One.<\/p>\n
He identified three key risks enterprises must guard against: AI generating incorrect information, leakage of sensitive customer data and autonomous systems behaving unpredictably. \u201cThe more powerful the technology, the more careful you have to be,\u201d Kenghe said, stressing that organisations must build security and safety by design into AI systems from the outset.![\"Image](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cisco.jpg\")
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\n Prashant Thakkar, executive director, LIC Mutual Funds, which runs one of India\u2019s largest on-ground agent networks, said the temptation to chase flashy AI for its own sake has to be resisted. His priority, Thakkar said, is to equip the field force with relevant and personalised information.<\/p>\n
Security bottleneck
Tata Motors Digital.AI Labs chief information security officer Pawan Sharma called for AI systems to be \u201csecure by design\u201d, meaning security must be integrated from the planning stage instead of being added after deployment.<\/p>\n
AI systems no longer behave predictably. \u201cEarlier you could just imagine what the system would do\u2026. Now you have to imagine what the system can do,\u201d he said. Designing for that cannot be left to security teams alone. \u201cBusiness process owners need to be in the room because the failure of an ecosystem is\u2026 a failure of imagination,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Amol Deshpande, chief digital officer at the RPG Group, said enterprises must evaluate business value, redesign processes and prepare employees before deploying AI widely.<\/p>\n
LIC MF\u2019s Thakkar said enterprises must continuously revisit their resilience mechanisms. \u201cIf an AI system goes rogue, are you in a position to plug it out? And if you do, how will your business continue to operate?\u201d<\/p>\n
Cisco’s Chittilapilly agreed. \u201cThe question is not whether bad actors will get in; it is how you manage them once they get in,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
RPG\u2019s Deshpande warned about the growing use of synthetic data for AI training and predicted enterprises will increasingly deploy \u201cguardian agents\u201d to monitor other AI agents. \u201cIt will be the good agents versus the bad agents,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Tata Motors\u2019 Sharma highlighted the rise of \u201cbring your own AI\u201d as one of the biggest governance challenges. Employees increasingly experiment with consumer AI tools using enterprise data, often without organisational oversight, he said.<\/p>\n
Need for regulation
Executives said India should avoid rushing into AI regulations, instead look towards a broad, principles-based framework developed jointly by industry and policymakers.<\/p>\n
Singh of Reliance Enterprise Intelligence said one of the biggest unanswered questions is accountability when AI systems fail. \u201cIf something goes wrong in an AI system, where does the accountability lie? Is it with the organisation, the hyperscaler, the implementer or the orchestration provider? These are still early days and the governance framework has to answer these practical questions.\u201d<\/p>\n
Angel One\u2019s Kenghe said the industry should not wait for regulators to step in. \u201cThe best thing is for participants to regulate themselves. The more the industry regulates itself, the less the regulator has to intervene,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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