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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 8

Reshaping Work with Agentic AI

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Sharpening your mental skills with AI as a partner

Bullet Using Agentic AI to enhance your abilities

Bullet Redefining how you work and collaborate with Agentic AI

Bullet Finding your place in the Agentic AI-influenced job market

Unlike the automation and AI technologies that came before it, Agentic AI won’t just change how we work. I predict that it will challenge and redefine what work even means. The impact will be deep and wide, reshaping the purpose, pace, and structure of human work endeavors in ways that we’re only beginning to understand. This kind of disruption doesn’t arrive gently. It carries both risk and reward: Yes, it threatens certain jobs and established workflows, but it also opens the door to entirely new kinds of work, industries, and roles that people haven’t yet imagined.

And keeping the broader context in view is important. Not only Agentic AI is reshaping work. Geopolitical tensions, macroeconomic instability, fluctuating tariffs, and even fraud and misinformation — some of it within the AI industry itself — are all shaping ...

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ISBN: 9781394379606