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In brief
A new technology earns a pilot when the problem is named, the exit is real, and the security review is not scheduled for later.
Original CloudExchangers explainer. It describes established public practice and labels the desk’s judgment as analysis. It is not a report of a newly announced event.
Fashion is not a requirement
Emerging technology is a label for something that does not yet have an operating manual in your industry. That can be a reason to learn. It is not a reason to put it in a revenue path. The desk uses a short test, borrowed in spirit from the way NIST asks AI systems to be mapped and measured, and applicable more broadly.
Name the problem in one sentence that does not include the product. Say what you will measure in a pilot, and what result would make you stop. Say how the data is handled and who can turn the system off. Say what you will do if the vendor disappears or the approach turns out to be ordinary software with a new adjective. If the exit is “we will be too far along to stop,” you are not piloting. You are adopting without a decision.