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Glossary entry

Agentic AI

AI systems that can plan, decide, and take multi-step actions with some degree of autonomy toward a goal.

Why it matters

Agentic AI matters because more autonomous systems can create more business value, but they also increase governance, observability, and economic risk if actions scale without control.

From an economics perspective, agentic AI raises the stakes of cost control and proof because the system is not only generating outputs, but initiating actions that can trigger downstream spend.