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Gartner ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠estimates only about 130 of the thousands of vendors selling agentic AI offer genuine agentic capabilities; it calls the rest "agent washing."

"Agentic" ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠made Dictionary.com's 2025 Word of the Year shortlist; the winner was "67."

Psychologist ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠Stanley Milgram used "agentic state" for a person who sees themselves as the instrument of another's wishes, no longer responsible for their own actions.