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Agentic AI For Dummies
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Agentic AI For Dummies

by Pam Baker
January 2026
Beginner
352 pages
9h 8m
English
For Dummies
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Index

A

  • accuracy, justice beyond, 183
  • A-commerce, 23
    • AI fallibility, 23–24
    • optimizing commerce sites for AI, 25–27
    • personal AI shoppers, 25
    • reducing specific website interaction, 24
    • surpassing E-commerce, 312
    • transition to, 27
  • actionable learning strategies, 277–278
  • active approaches to using AI, 193–194
  • Ada Lovelace Institute, 184
  • adapting jobs (big-picture view), 197
  • adaptive behavior, 38–39
  • adaptive reasoning, 62
  • administrative AI agents, 163
  • Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol, 55, 68–69
  • Agent Communication Protocol (ACP), 31, 55, 67, 71, 74
    • internet-based methods, 72–73
    • precision-focused communication, 73
  • Agentic AI system, defined, 1
  • agentic education, mainstream adoption of, 313
  • agentic reflection, 39
  • Agent Network Protocol (ANP), 31, 67, 69–70
  • Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol, 31, 67, 70
    • agent communication, 70–71
    • collaboration barriers, 71
  • AI agent manager, becoming, 266
  • AI agents vs. Agentic AI, 14
    • common features, 17–18
    • differences, 18
    • examples of agents and agentic systems, 15–17
    • strengths, 18
    • weaknesses, 18
  • AI-as-a-Service (AIaaS), 221
  • AI-as-tool mindset
    • directing Agentic AI, 85–86
    • establishing the mindset, 84–85
  • AI reasoning, 11
    • operational challenges of Agentic AI, 14
    • philosophy, reason, and fear, 12
    • reasoning perspective, 12–13
  • AI Risk Management Framework, 226
  • Algorithmic Justice League (AJL), 184
  • alignment problems and value misfires, 174
    • collective effort toward value alignment, 178–179
    • detecting misfires, 178
    • difficulty of achieving alignment, ...
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