Artificial intelligence keeps improving at all sorts of things
– including how to challenge corporate ethics and compliance
programs. Even while you may still be struggling to tame the risks
of generative AI, its more powerful cousin is
already coming up fast: agentic AI.
Agentic AI, as the name implies, is an AI "agent" that
can act independently of humans to achieve various goals. It can
devise its own strategies to achieve those goals, and learn from
previous experiences to improve its strategies. It can even
collaborate with other AI agents to solve complicated tasks in a
coordinated fashion.
On one hand, agentic AI sounds great. AI agents could act on
your behalf to purchase concert tickets, keep your home heated or
cooled throughout the day, or re-book the rest of your travel plans
if you miss your first flight.
