Agentic AI: Why It’s the Next Big Shift in Tech

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Agentic AI is transforming enterprise technology by moving beyond content generation to autonomous actions. In this episode of Copilot Show, Mehrnoosh Sameki explores the risks, guardrails, and governance frameworks needed to deploy AI agents safely and effectively.
 
🎙️ What you’ll learn 

• How agentic AI differs from generative AI and why it matters 
• Key risks: task misalignment, prohibited actions, sensitive data leakage 
• Practical guardrails and evaluation strategies for AI agents 
• How to manage agent sprawl with Microsoft Foundry Control Plane 
• Why red teaming and observability are critical for AI safety 

✅ Highlights 

• “Everything that I hear at work is about agentic AI.” 
• “Agents don’t just output text or image. They take actions.” 
• “Task alignment and staying on task is a huge one.” 
• “Sensitive data leakage is more and more important.” 
• “Bad actors could overwrite those information with different techniques.” 
• “If you don’t know how many agents are out there, huge safety risk.” 
• “We released something called Foundry Control Plane.” 
• “Each agent gets a unique identity to suspend, quarantine, or stop.” 
• “You can set org-wide policies against your agents.” 
• “Red teaming is huge for identifying the risks.” 
• “Our AI red teaming agent gives you a scorecard of vulnerabilities.” 

🧰Mentioned 

• Microsoft Foundry Control Plane: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-foundry/control-plane/overview 
• Entra: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/business/microsoft-entra 
• Azure AI Foundry: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/ai-foundry  
• Pyrit (open-source toolkit): https://github.com/Azure/PyRIT  
• AI red teaming agent: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-foundry/concepts/ai-red-teaming-agent 
• OpenAI partnership: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/01/21/microsoft-and-openai-evolve-partnership-to-drive-the-next-phase-of-ai  
• Credo AI: https://www.credo.ai  

✅Keywords 
agentic ai, generative ai, responsible ai, guardrails, observability, task misalignment, sensitive data leakage, agent hijacking, foundry control plane, entra, red teaming, ai governance 

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