Agentic AI will be the top tech trend for 2025, according to research firm Gartner. The term describes autonomous machine "agents" that move beyond query-and-response generative chatbots to do enterprise-related tasks without human guidance. In fact, Gartner predicts that within four years, at least 15% of day-to-day work decisions will be made autonomously through agentic AI, up from basically 0% this year. Those stats are fleshed out in the firm's What Is Agentic AI guidance: "Today's AI models perform tasks such as generating text, but these are 'prompted' — the AI isn't acting by itself. That is about to change with agentic AI, or AI with agency. By 2028, 33% of enterprise software applications will include agentic AI, up from less than 1% in 2024, enabling 15% of day-to-day work decisions to be made autonomously."
