New Delhi, April 8 -- The future arrived quietly, wrapped in convenience. When they first appeared on the scene in 2025, AI agents were simple. We used them to schedule meetings, write emails and occasionally help negotiate with customer care. We were delighted to outsource these relatively low-stake tasks to a digital assistant that was able to perform them so well. Over time, we began to rely on them implicitly.

Today, in the year 2035, Agentic AI is our primary interface with the world. These digital assistants have over the past decade transformed from marginally helpful tools into our virtual proxies. Not only do we use them to execute complex tasks under our instructions, we've grown so confident in their ability to know exactly wh...