Gartner: AI Governance platforms, disinformation security among tech trends in 2025

2025 will be a crossroads of tech and the topmost societal concerns, according to Gartner.

Research firm Gartner released its list of the top tech trends that IT leaders should be aware of in 2025. While artificial intelligence and cybersecurity emerging trends are prominent, there are other technologies that will be at the forefront of progress in the year to come, according to Gartner’s report on 2025 top strategic technology trends.

The trends that Gartner cited are not only business-related but suggest an overall societal concern over misinformation spreading like wildfire across social media, and with ethical issues about AI.

Here are Gartner’s top tech trends for 2025:

Agentic AI

According to Gartner, agentic AI involves intelligent agents, machine customers, and multiagent systems that can “receive instructions, create a plan and use tooling to complete tasks, and produce dynamic outputs.”

Gartner forecasts that by 2028, 33 percent of business software apps will include agentic AI, and will make up to 15 percent of day-to-day work decisions autonomously.

AI Governance Platforms

With AI now deployed or on the roadmap of most businesses, Gartner says AI governance will be a major trend in 2025.

AI governance platforms will allow organizations to manage the ethical, legal, and operational use of AI.

Disinformation Security

In an election year, there is a lot of news around misinformation/disinformation on social media and across the internet, especially with the advent of generative AI and the ability to create deepfakes.

Gartner predicts that disinformation security will not be a single technology, but a cross-section of verticals including “executive leadership, security teams, public relations, marketing, finance, human resources, legal counsel and sales.”

Post-Quantum Cryptography

Cryptography is a cornerstone of secure communications and Gartner says that using this technology will be necessary to offset the security risks of quantum computing.

“Post-quantum cryptography (PQC) refers to cryptographic methods designed to be secure against the potential threats posed by quantum computers,” according to Gartner.

Ambient Intelligence

Gartner describes ambient intelligence as “the large-scale use of small, low-cost tags and sensors to provide information about the location and status of a wide range of objects.”

Energy-Efficient Computing

“The rise of compute-intensive technologies such as AI coupled with increasing sustainability requirements are driving demand for energy-efficient computing,” Gartner says.

Hybrid Computing

As technologies continue to converge, Gartner says hybrid computing will take off next year.

Hybrid computing, as defined by Gartner, is the combination of “CPUs, GPUs, edge devices, ASICs, and neuromorphic, quantum and photonic systems — to solve complex computational problems.”

Spatial Computing

Spatial computing is the “anchoring” of digital content into the physical world, providing immersive user experiences. Gartner predicts that “by 2028, 20% of people will have an immersive experience with persistently anchored, geoposted content once a week.”

Polyfunctional Robots

2025 will be the rise of the machines. Polyfunctional robots can perform multiple tasks with human instruction and will bring in a “a new wave of physical innovation,” Gartner says.

Neurological Enhancement

Gartner predicts advancements in “brain-machine interface capabilities.” This means technology that can enhance “a human’s cognitive abilities using technologies that read and decode brain activity and optionally write to the brain.”