Agentic AI: The Intern That Won’t Take a Coffee Break
Agentic AI: The Intern That Won’t Take a Coffee Break
AI isn’t just assisting anymore, it’s deciding. Agentic AI is moving beyond chatbots and into real-world autonomy, running supply chains, adjusting financial trades, and even managing employees.
But as AI starts making independent choices, do we know where to draw the line?
Unlike traditional AI, these systems don’t wait for input, they act. Tesla’s AI autonomously adjusts production, JPMorgan’s AI trades based on market shifts, and Darktrace’s cybersecurity AI fights threats without human approval.
This efficiency revolution comes with risks: lack of transparency, emotional manipulation, and control boundaries. If AI is making executive decisions, who holds accountability when things go wrong?
Read the full article on Fast Company.
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Dr. Mark van Rijmenam is The Digital Speaker, a world-leading futurist and global AI keynote speaker who helps leaders decide what AI, and the technologies that follow it, mean for their business. He speaks to leadership teams at their retreats and to conference audiences worldwide, and his WAVE framework gives them a way of deciding that they keep using long after he has left the room. His Intelligence Age Scorecard measures how ready an organization is across the four WAVE pillars.
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