2026-05-06
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For Scientific American Science Quickly, I'm Rachel Feldman.
Been chatting with a customer service rep and just felt like they're a little off?
Well, customer service is a tough job, so maybe you're the problem.
But it's also possible you were communicating with an AI agent.
These are computer programs designed to autonomously execute tasks.
So while you might use a chatbot powered by a large language model to answer a specific question using data
scraped from the internet, you could give an agentic AI system a task like design a website for my new bakery,
and expected to at least try to accomplish the whole project out in the real world.
Depending on how you design your agent and how much freedom you give it,
one of these computer programs could create its own login on a web hosting service,
scour the internet for examples of good marketing copy about croissants,
generate a few fake photos of kids with too many fingers enjoying cupcakes.
You get the idea.
Before you know it, you've got a bakery website, though maybe not a very good one.
When global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company surveyed nearly 2,000 people about AI usage last year,
62% of respondents said their companies were at least experimenting with AI agents.