Signal Top AI barriers: concerns about AI (46%), regulatory and ethical (44%), organizational (39%)

Summary

McKinsey's 2026 survey ranks the barriers to AI adoption as concerns about AI itself including bias, intellectual property, and job threat (46 percent), regulatory, ethical, or legal concerns (44 percent, higher among EU leaders at 48 percent and in Germany at 56 percent), and organizational challenges including change management and silos (39 percent).