The rapid advancement of AI has sparked both excitement and caution across industries, with engineering and customer service teams benefiting, while cybersecurity and IT professionals express concerns about data privacy, rigid technologies, and the need for human oversight in critical workflows. Drawing from personal experience in security leadership, the author highlights the frustration with AI solutions that fail to deliver post-demo and emphasizes the importance of launching valuable, non-hyped AI features at Tines. To gauge AI's potential impact, a survey was conducted among 53 CISOs from the US, UK, Australia, and the Netherlands, revealing that 94% of respondents are worried about AI increasing pressure on security teams, while 66% cite data privacy as a challenge and 49% point to inflexible technologies. Despite these concerns, 74% believe faster AI-driven decision-making offers more benefits than risks, and 51% think AI will facilitate hiring entry-level employees. The full report is available at tines.com.