Agentic AI and the Governance Equation Traditional AI governance generally assumes a familiar pattern: a model receives an input, produces an output, and waits for the next request. Agentic AI changes that pattern —and the governance equation, and the risk that comes with it. An AI agent can plan work, select tools, access business systems, communicate with other agents, make decisions, and take action with limited human involvement. Depending on its authority, an agent might