1/7 AI has moved beyond chatbots. Agentic AI systems now plan and execute multi-step tasks — browsing, coding, sending messages, managing files — without step-by-step human approval. A new @acmpolicy TechBrief examines what this means for law, security, and society. 🧵
𝐀𝐈 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐯𝐬 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐀𝐈 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰.
And that confusion is costing teams time, money, and clarity.
An AI agent is simple.
You give it a task. It gives you an output.
It doesn’t think ahead. It doesn’t plan. It just responds.
𝐄𝐱𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞
↳ Summarize a document
↳ Write an email
↳ Generate code snippet
That’s useful. But limited.
Agentic AI is a different game.
↳ It doesn’t just respond.
↳ It decides what to do next.
It can plan → execute → review → improve
Sometimes with multiple agents working together
𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬:
↳ Agent = Intern who does what you ask
↳ Agentic AI = Team that understands the goal and figures things out
This is why people struggle while building with AI.
They try to solve complex workflows using simple agents.
And then say
“AI doesn’t work”
It does. You’re just using the wrong layer.
If your use case is:
• One-time tasks → use a simple agent
• Multi-step workflows → use planner + executor
• Ongoing, evolving work → build an agentic system
The real shift is not tools.
It’s thinking in systems instead of prompts.
The people who understand this early will build faster
Automate better
And need less manual effort over time
The rest will keep writing better prompts for problems that need better architecture
If you’re building in AI right now
Start asking this before anything else:
Am I solving this with a tool or designing a system?
#LLM #AIEngineering #AgenticAI #RAG
ANTHROPIC JUST DROPPED A 33-PAGE GUIDE.
This is the most practical breakdown of Claude Skills I’ve seen.
Bookmark this before you forget.
33 pages.
Persistent instructions.
No repetition.
No re-explaining every time.
Read it today. Link below.
Claude → Skills → Memory → Automation → Systems → Money
Die Gründerin von HateAid, Anna-Lena von Hodenberg, ist noch im Oktober 2025 für die Gründung ihrer Beratungsstelle vom Bundespräsidenten ausgezeichnet worden.
Dann verboten ihr die USA die Einreise. Und kurz darauf in Deutschland:
Professor John Mearsheimer:
We’re not winning against Iran. We’re not winning.
We’re sending a message that we’re a bunch of fools. That we started a war we can’t win.
We didn’t have the required military forces to achieve any of the objectives that we were floating, and we had no plan.
What does this tell the Chinese and what does it tell the Russians?
It tells them that we are incompetent. Of course the Russians have had enough dealings with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to fully understand just how incompetent we are.
Richard Feynman called Euler's Identity "our jewel" and "the most remarkable formula in mathematics." What's Pi got to do with it? Learn more here: https://t.co/kmA3oc4nbt
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#PiDay#PiDay2026#PiDay26#STEM