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What do CEOs really think of artificial intelligence? The question nagged Dataiku CEO Florian Douetteau—whose company sells AI software to enterprises—and his team enough to commission a survey to find out. One thing became clear from the results: CEOs see AI as a threat to their positions. In the survey, 74% of CEOs overall—and 79% in the U.S.—said they could lose their jobs within two years if they don’t deliver measurable AI-driven business gains. The survey, conducted by Harris Poll on behalf of Dataiku earlier this year, polled 500 CEOs in Europe and the U.S. “Part of the thing that we learned from the survey is that many CEOs realize that they have to do things about AI and are almost, to some extent, fearful of losing their job or their position because of AI, because of not doing enough,” Douetteau said Tuesday at Fortune’s Brainstorm AI event in Paris. For Dataiku, knowing how CEOs view AI could be helpful. Clients as varied as Morgan Stanley, GE Aviation, and Perdue Farms use its platform to manage data, analytics, and AI projects. Founded in 2013 in Paris, the company’s latest reported valuation was $3.7 billion. In the survey, 70% of CEOs said they believe a fellow CEO will be ousted by year’s end due a failed AI strategy or AI-induced crisis, according to the survey.