Explaining Agentic AI: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly

What are agentic AI and agentic operating systems? And what are their potential benefits, drawbacks and longer-term implications?

For further information, the websites and articles included in this video are as follows:

PROTOCOLS:

MCP website: https://modelcontextprotocol.i....o/docs/getting-start

Google announces the A2A protocol: https://developers.googleblog.....com/en/a2a-a-new-era

IBM’s ACP integrated into A2A: https://lfaidata.foundation/co....mmunityblog/2025/08/

A2A Protocol website: https://a2a-protocol.org/latest/


ORCHESTRATION PLATFORMS:

Microsoft AutoGen: https://www.microsoft.com/en-u....s/research/project/a

IBM WatsonX Orchestrate: https://www.ibm.com/products/watsonx-orchestrate

AWS Bedroom AgentCore: https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/agentcore/

Google Vertex AI Agent Builder: https://cloud.google.com/products/agent-builder

Google Gemini Enterprise https://cloud.google.com/gemini-enterprise

AgentForce: https://www.salesforce.com/uk/agentforce/

Forethought: https://forethought.ai/

Origon AI: https://origon.ai/


AGENTIC OPERATING SYSTEMS:

“Making every Windows PC an AI PC”: https://blogs.windows.com/wind....owsexperience/2025/1

“Experimental Agentic Features” in Windows: https://support.microsoft.com/....en-us/windows/experi

Microsoft Agent 365: https://www.microsoft.com/en-u....s/microsoft-agent-36

MIT Sloan Management Review and BCG article on the agentic enterprise (inc survey): https://sloanreview.mit.edu/pr....ojects/the-emerging-

Apple working on MCP support for agentic AI: https://9to5mac.com/2025/09/22..../macos-tahoe-26-1-be


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Chapters:
00:00 Titles & Intro
00:48 Agentic AI Basics
07:14 The Good
09:53 The Bad
11:48 The Ugly
13:22 The Future

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