Why Ontologies Are More Critical Than Ever

Michael Iantosca Sr. Director of Content and Knowledge Engineering“Business, at the Speed of Trust”Over the past few years, AI has evolved at a pace that feels almost impossible to keep up with. From IBM Watson’s rule-based reasoning to today’s generative and agentic AI systems, we’ve witnessed a fundamental paradigm shift from symbolic reasoning to statistical generation. Yet amid all this change, one quiet but powerful truth is re-emerging:Ontologies — the formal maps of how things in a domain relate to one another — are becoming more important than ever.There Is No Easy Button.