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Why Agentic AI Was Always Going to Fail

June 4, 2026 by Basil Puglisi Leave a Comment

The agentic AI era promised to replace humans with autonomous systems. The evidence shows it failed on two fronts: the technology cannot reliably do what it promised, and the public is rejecting the premise even where it partially works. This paper introduces the Named-Human Test, a single sorting question that separates what failed from what survives, and traces that line across production benchmarks, supermajority polling, enacted law, and frontier-lab disclosures.

Filed Under: AI Artificial Intelligence, AI Governance, AI Thought Leadership, Business, Content Marketing, Enterprise AI, Thought Leadership, Workflow, Working Papers Tagged With: agentic AI, AI Governance, Checkpoint-Based Governance, Economic Override Pattern, Human-AI Collaboration, MIT Delphi Study, Named Human Authority, Named-Human Test, OpenClaw, Responsible AI

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