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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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Chapter 6

Sampling Sector Use Cases for AI Agents

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Looking at Agentic AI use cases in the medical field

Bullet Putting AI agents into business operations

Bullet Facilitating marketing, customer experience, and inventory management

Bullet Introducing AI in creative roles

Bullet Streamlining education with AI

Agentic AI is not a one-size-fits-all or a plug-and-play computing solution. It takes on different roles depending on the sector, the data it has access to, and the goals it is tasked with. Exploring a range of use cases across industries and organizations reveals just how adaptable these systems can be.

This chapter takes you on a guided tour of sector-specific examples to show the breadth of Agentic AI’s potential. I say potential because the examples in this chapter are primarily use cases that people are excited about and working toward, but they aren’t necessarily real in the sense that they’re live and actively in use.

By looking at applications in healthcare, business operations and ...

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