Agentic AI Is Here—But Are We Ready?

As agentic AI moves from chatbots to autonomous systems, Tim Hornyak warns that capability is racing ahead of oversight. Framed by Sam Altman’s “gentle singularity” claim and new Turing-test results, the piece charts a shift from prompt-based generation to goal-directed action: agents that plan, reason, use tools, and execute tasks with minimal supervision. Big tech and startups alike are deploying agents in the wild—from Capital One’s dealership concierge and Salesforce/Databricks build-tools to Google’s coding agent, DeepMind’s AlphaEvolve, healthcare apps like Galen AI, and Visa’s purchase-enabled agents—while experts caution that multistep autonomy compounds errors and still demands human-in-the-loop control. With governments beginning to respond (Paris AI Action Summit pledges; UK calls for a Superintelligence Council), Hornyak argues that trust, safety, and regulation must catch up fast. The takeaway: agentic AI is here, powerful and accelerating, and we need robust guardrails, testing, and governance before autonomy outpaces our capacity to manage it.