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

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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.io/docs/getting-started/intro Google announces the A2A protocol: https://developers.googleblog.com/en/a2a-a-new-era-of-agent-interoperability/ IBM’s ACP integrated into A2A: https://lfaidata.foundation/communityblog/2025/08/29/acp-joins-forces-with-a2a-under-the-linux-foundations-lf-ai-data/ A2A Protocol website: https://a2a-protocol.org/latest/ ORCHESTRATION PLATFORMS: Microsoft AutoGen: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/autogen/ 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/windowsexperience/2025/10/16/making-every-windows-11-pc-an-ai-pc/ “Experimental Agentic Features” in Windows: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/experimental-agentic-features-a25ede8a-e4c2-4841-85a8-44839191dfb3 Microsoft Agent 365: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-agent-365 MIT Sloan Management Review and BCG article on the agentic enterprise (inc survey): https://sloanreview.mit.edu/projects/the-emerging-agentic-enterprise-how-leaders-must-navigate-a-new-age-of-ai/ Apple working on MCP support for agentic AI: https://9to5mac.com/2025/09/22/macos-tahoe-26-1-beta-1-mcp-integration/ More videos on computing and related topics can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/@ExplainingComputers And more videos on film and other making, plus retro tech, can be found on my Christopher Barnatt channel: http://www.youtube.com/@ChristopherBarnatt 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 #AgenticAI #agentic #Aiagent #agent #MCP #A2A #orchestration #ExplainingComputers