Cisco Systems, Inc.

Cisco is an aggressive AI adopter that has embedded AI across its core product lines — including Webex collaboration, security (via Splunk and XDR), networking, and observability — while simultaneously building and selling AI infrastructure to enterprise customers. The company explicitly linked two major 2024 restructuring rounds (totaling ~9,600 jobs, roughly 12% of workforce) to a strategic 'pivot to AI,' though it also publicly stated layoffs were not cost-driven, creating a credibility tension. Cisco maintains a formal Responsible AI framework with published principles, a governance committee, and public risk disclosures in SEC filings, representing a relatively transparent posture, though the gap between the CEO's pre-layoff statement about not cutting jobs for AI and subsequent actions weakens that standing.