TECHNOLOGY<\/p>\n
There’s a meaningful difference between an AI that answers questions and an AI that takes actions.<\/strong><\/p>\n We’ve spent the last few years getting comfortable with the former. Chatbots, copilots, writing assistants \u2014 tools that respond to prompts and wait politely for the next one. We’ve built workflows around them. We’ve worked out roughly where to trust them and where to check their work.<\/p>\n Agentic AI breaks all of that. And I don’t think most organisations are remotely prepared for it.<\/p>\n An AI agent doesn’t just generate text. It executes multi-step tasks across tools, systems, and APIs \u2014 often without a human in the loop at each step. It books the meeting, sends the email, queries the database, updates the record. It acts.<\/p>\n That shift from “generate” to “act” is not incremental. It is categorical. The error modes are completely different, the trust requirements are completely different, and the governance frameworks needed are completely different.<\/p>\n “The shift from ‘generate’ to ‘act’ is not incremental. It is categorical.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n When a chatbot hallucinates, you get a wrong answer. When an agent hallucinates, it might send an email to the wrong person, delete a file, or execute a financial transaction based on faulty reasoning. The blast radius of an agentic mistake is orders of magnitude larger.<\/p>\n Most enterprise security models weren’t designed for this. Most IT governance frameworks weren’t designed for this. Most audit trails weren’t designed for this.<\/p>\n The organisations getting this right are treating agentic AI like they’d treat a new employee with significant system access: limited permissions to start, clear escalation paths, detailed logging of every action taken, and a human review step for anything irreversible.<\/p>\n That’s not technophobia. That’s just sensible risk management. The exciting capabilities are real \u2014 but so are the failure modes.<\/p>\n Tags: Artificial Intelligence \u2022 Opinion \u2022 Technology & Society \u2022 192.168.1.22\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Agentic AI doesn’t just answer questions \u2014 it takes actions. That’s a fundamentally different problem, and most organisations haven’t caught up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iamglover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iamglover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iamglover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iamglover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iamglover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iamglover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9038,"href":"http:\/\/iamglover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9003\/revisions\/9038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iamglover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iamglover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iamglover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What “Agentic” Actually Means<\/h2>\n
The Problem Nobody’s Talking About<\/h2>\n
What Good Looks Like<\/h2>\n