---
id: "prereq-agentic-ai-concepts"
type: "prereq"
source_timestamps: ["§ The Evolution of Boards: From AI Adoption to Agentic Governance", "§ Looking Ahead"]
tags: ["artificial-intelligence", "technology-trends"]
related: ["concept-agentic-governance", "framework-board-evolution-pyramid", "concept-hybrid-leadership-architectures"]
reason: "Required to understand how AI transitions from a 'tool' to an 'actor' in corporate governance."
sources: ["governance"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-governance"
originDay: 7
articleStem: "hbr-sig-56-csuite-board-reshaped-ai"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/06/how-c-suite-and-board-roles-are-being-reshaped-around-ai"
sourceTitle: "How C-Suite and Board Roles Are Being Reshaped Around AI"
---
# Familiarity with Agentic AI

**Prerequisite:** A baseline understanding of **agentic AI** — that AI can act autonomously to execute goals, rather than merely generating text from prompts.

**Why it's needed.** The author frequently references 'agentic AI' and 'agentic systems' participating in board processes or acting as synthetic coworkers. Without the concept that AI can *act*, one cannot follow how AI transitions from a **tool** to an **actor** in corporate governance — the pivot underlying [[concept-agentic-governance]], the later stages of the [[framework-board-evolution-pyramid]], and the embedded-AI vision of [[concept-hybrid-leadership-architectures]]. *(Adjacent framing from enrichment: 'human-in-the-loop' vs. 'human-on-the-loop' oversight models are the practical vocabulary for calibrating how much autonomy such agents get.)*


## Related across articles
- [[prereq-agentic-ai-understanding]]
- [[concept-agentic-ai-d7]]