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Data study · 1 October 2026

# 84% of CIOs have cancelled an AI project because of legacy systems

Original title, in Spanish: “El 84% de los CIO cancela un proyecto de IA por el legacy”

**Publication**

Revista Byte TI (Spain)

**Author**

Alfonso Casas

**Published on**

1 October 2026 · read in the page structured data

## Summary

According to a GFT Technologies study carried out by Wakefield Research among 945 CIOs and CTOs in 19 countries, at companies with annual revenue of at least $500 million, outdated infrastructure is a major brake on AI adoption. 84% of respondents say they have cancelled a pilot or an AI project because of the limitations of their legacy systems, and 93% believe that deploying AI without modernising infrastructure will cause a security crisis. The study also finds that 89% of CIOs fear an AI bubble, that 99% consider it important not to depend on a single vendor following the dispute between the US government and Anthropic, and that 51% have hired employees to correct work generated by AI.

Summary based on the full text of the article.

[Read the article on Revista Byte TI →](https://revistabyte.es/actualidad-it/cio-proyectos-de-ia-cancelados/)

## Figures cited

-   84 %
    
    CIOs who have cancelled an AI project because of legacy systems
    
    945 CIOs/CTOs in 19 countries, companies with annual revenue of $500M or more, August 2026
    
    > « El 84% afirma que las limitaciones de sus sistemas legacy han provocado que su organización cancele un piloto o un proyecto de IA. »
    
    Source: GFT Technologies / Wakefield Research
    
-   93 %
    
    CIOs fearing an AI-related security crisis on outdated infrastructure
    
    945 CIOs/CTOs in 19 countries
    
    > « el 93% cree que no modernizar antes de ejecutar IA sobre infraestructura obsoleta acabará desencadenando una una crisis de seguridad que afecte a toda la organización. »
    
    Source: GFT Technologies
    
-   89 %
    
    CIOs concerned about a possible AI bubble
    
    945 CIOs/CTOs in 19 countries
    
    > « El 89% está preocupado por que la inversión global en IA pueda estar creciendo más rápido que el valor empresarial que puede generar de forma realista. »
    
    Source: GFT Technologies
    
-   99 %
    
    Importance of not depending on a single AI vendor
    
    945 CIOs/CTOs in 19 countries
    
    > « El 99% afirma que las posibles restricciones gubernamentales al acceso a la IA incrementan la importancia de no depender de un único proveedor de IA »
    
    Source: GFT Technologies
    
-   42 %
    
    CIOs favouring in-house construction of AI infrastructure
    
    945 CIOs/CTOs in 19 countries
    
    > « el 42% de los encuestados se inclina ahora por construir internamente la infraestructura de IA en lugar de adquirirla a proveedores externos. »
    
    Source: GFT Technologies
    
-   51 %
    
    Companies that have hired staff to correct AI's work
    
    945 CIOs/CTOs in 19 countries
    
    > « Más de la mitad (51 %) afirmó haber contratado a empleados específicamente para revisar o corregir el trabajo generado por la IA »
    
    Source: GFT Technologies
    
-   26 %
    
    Companies that have rehired employees previously laid off
    
    945 CIOs/CTOs in 19 countries
    
    > « el 26 % señaló haber readmitido a empleados a los que habían despedido anteriormente. »
    
    Source: GFT Technologies
    

## Classification

**Country**

Worldwide scope

**Company size**

Large companies, Mid-sized companies

**Industries**

All industries, or industry not specified · Software vendors, IT services companies, telecoms

**Companies**

Wakefield Research (cited), GFT Technologies (study author), Anthropic (cited)

**Keywords**

legacy systems, cios, outdated infrastructure, ai bubble, it security, employment

Entry written by Marsanne Studio from the cited article, with the help of an AI model (claude-sonnet-5). The rights to the article and its illustrations belong to Revista Byte TI and its author. Entry translated from French by Claude Sonnet 5.5.