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Most AI chat is question-in, answer-out. Agentic AI goes further: give it a goal and it plans the steps, uses tools — a browser, your calendar, a spreadsheet — checks its own progress, and keeps going until the job is done. Less like consulting a guidebook, more like hiring a travel agent.
It matters because it changes what AI is for: from helping you write about work to actually doing some of it. It also raises the stakes — an AI that takes actions needs good guardrails, because its mistakes happen out in the real world, not just on the page.
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