Agentic AI
Definition AI designed to pursue goals through multi-step actions—planning, using software tools, and adjusting course—with limited human direction, rather than answering a single prompt. The umbrella term for systems built around AI agents.
In more depth
Where a chatbot produces one response per request, agentic AI breaks a goal into steps, executes them—searching, drafting, calling other software—and evaluates its own progress. This autonomy raises the stakes of errors, since a mistake early in a chain can compound across later steps. Organizations adopting agentic tools generally pair them with human review checkpoints and explicit limits on what actions the system may take on its own.
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