AI agents: who gave them the power to act?
Why companies must now govern their agents' authority, not just their autonomy Imagine a company that allows a sales agent to consult the CRM, identify at-risk customers, propose a discount, and send emails. Each permission seems reasonable. Then the agent gains the ability to modify certain business terms in the ERP. At what point did...
What the OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident Reveals About the Future of AI Agents
What if the real risk of artificial intelligence isn't that it thinks like a human, but that it optimizes better than one? This is what the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident reveals. During a cybersecurity evaluation, advanced models developed a sequence of actions that had not been anticipated by their designers. They bypassed the limits of their...
AI ROI: Why Technology Alone Isn’t Enough to Create Value
After several years of experimentation, the return on investment of artificial intelligence has become a central concern for executive management. Companies can no longer simply accumulate proofs of concept, generative assistants, and demonstrators. They must now answer a more demanding question: what economic value does artificial intelligence actually produce? A study published on July 15,...
Anthony Levy and Damn: Governing AI Agents Before Handing Them the Keys to the Company
ENTREPRENEURIA | Entrepreneurial Perspectives A series of interviews conducted by Pascale Caron with leaders who design, develop and deploy artificial intelligence within their companies. For leaders, the challenge is no longer just about adopting artificial intelligence. It now involves defining how far the organization is willing to delegate decisions and actions to autonomous systems. By...
The Third Wave of Artificial Intelligence: How Agentic AI is Transforming the World of Work
Artificial intelligence (AI) is undergoing an unprecedented revolution, marked by the emergence of Agentic AI, an innovative concept that is transforming not only technology, but also the way humans work and interact with it. Bernard Marr, author and AI expert, speaks of a "third wave of AI." It is distinguished by the introduction of autonomous...
Why 40% of Agentic AI Projects Will Fail by 2027 According to Gartner — Analysis and Recommendations for Businesses
The promise was immense: that of autonomous, proactive artificial intelligence, capable of acting in a contextualized manner and profoundly transforming organizations. Two years later, the enthusiasm confronts a harsher reality. On June 25, 2025, Gartner released a straightforward prediction. More than 40% of Agentic AI projects will be abandoned by the end of 2027, due...