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AI Adoption in Ethics and Compliance:
Survey Findings

How Ethics and Compliance teams are adopting AI

AI adoption in ethics and compliance has moved from experimentation to expectation. In partnership with Compliance Week, konaAI surveyed nearly 200 ethics, compliance, risk and audit leaders to examine how AI (including generative and agentic models) is being deployed across compliance programs.

The findings are clear: AI is already embedded in the compliance stack. The question is no longer whether AI will be used, but whether it is governed, trusted and defensible.

In this exclusive survey report, you’ll discover:

  • Why 83% of organizations are already using or planning to use AI, and what that means for your program.
  • Where AI is delivering value today - from efficiency gains to enhanced monitoring and analytics.
  • Why fewer than half of respondents trust their AI outputs.
  • What’s next: predictive risk modelling, real-time monitoring and autonomous (agentic) workflows.
  • The buying signal: why ~27% expect a quarter or more of compliance tech budgets to shift to AI within 12 months.
  • How leadership and boards are driving AI adoption and accelerating timelines.

The risk is not AI adoption. The risk is unmanaged AI influencing compliance decisions.

This report provides a data-backed benchmark to help you:

  • Assess your organization’s AI maturity relative to peers
  • Identify governance and trust gaps before regulators do
  • Prioritize controls for predictive and agentic AI use cases
  • Align AI investment with defensible oversight

Access the Full Survey Report