Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2025

Use the 2025 strategic technology trends to shape the future with responsible innovation

In selecting this year’s 10 top strategic technology trends, Gartner analysts organized them across three themes: AI imperatives and risks, new frontiers of computing and human-machine synergy.

 

Theme No. 1: AI imperatives and risks drive organizations to protect themselves

Trend 1: Agentic AI: Autonomous AI can plan and take action to achieve goals set by the user.

 

Business benefits: A virtual workforce of agents to assist, offload and augment the work of humans or traditional applications.

 

Challenges: Requires robust guardrails to ensure alignment with providers’ and users’ intentions.

 

Trend 2: AI governance platforms: Technology solutions enable organizations to manage the legal, ethical and operational performance of their AI systems.

 

Business benefits: Create, manage and enforce policies that ensure responsible use of AI, explain how AI systems work, model lifecycle management, and provide transparency to build trust and accountability.

 

Challenges: AI guidelines vary across regions and industries, making it difficult to establish consistent practices.

 

Trend 3: Disinformation security: An emerging technology category aimed at systematically discerning trust.

 

Business benefits: Decreases fraud by strengthening controls for validating identity; prevents account takeover through continuous risk scoring, contextual awareness and a continuous adaptive trust model; and protects brand reputation by identifying harmful narratives.

 

Challenges: Requires a continuously updated, multilayered, adaptive learning, team approach.

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