MIT professor explains agentic AI: current capabilities, business adoption, and future potential
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Adam Zewe | MIT News
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MIT Associate Professor Phillip Isola explains the fundamentals of agentic AI — automated software systems that can act autonomously to achieve goals. A November 2025 MIT Sloan/BCG report found 35% of businesses have already deployed AI agents, with another 44% planning to. Isola discusses how these systems work, their current applications, ideal use cases, and the future trajectory of this rapidly expanding technology.
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· 3 pulledA November 2025 report by MIT Sloan School of Management and Boston Consulting Group found that 35 percent of surveyed businesses had already deployed AI agents, while another 44 percent planned to implement agentic AI soon.
The deployment of automated software systems called AI agents has recently exploded.
To understand the fundamentals and potential impacts of these increasingly popular tools, MIT News spoke with Phillip Isola, an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
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