India, March 19 -- Data, analytics, and the artificial intelligence (AI) technologies that they enable may be the stars of enterprise investments in strategic technology. But in spite of the high status of these technologies in business and industry, it's been a rocky few years. From the fall out of Cambridge Analytica's 2016 US election efforts, to the continuing Facebook privacy issues coming to light, to the fear of jobs lost to automation and AI, there's a lot of concern out there when it comes to data.

Gartner executive analysts acknowledged the negativity and laid out some principles to allay those concerns at the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit in Orlando, Florida this week.

"Are we creating an optimized world of automation, or are...