AI is least critical technology for business operations, UK study says
By Frank Hersey ( September 17, 2025, 19:22 GMT | Insight) -- Artificial intelligence is the technology considered least critical to business operations once adopted, according to respondents to a groundbreaking UK government study on technology adoption. It has one of the highest adoption rates and was most likely to be sourced from UK providers.Of five thousand businesses responding to a UK government study on the adoption and selling of new technologies, 52 percent rated artificial intelligence as critical to operations once adopted – the lowest rate of all technologies covered....
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