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Agentic AI is having a moment. Claude Code broke into the mainstream in January, and in February, a speculative essay about the potential of agentic coding tools helped trigger a brief stock market sell-off. By March, OpenAI had publicly recognized the need to monitor internal coding agents for undesirable behavior.
Garrett Pendergraft is the Blanche E. Seaver Professor of Philosophy at Pepperdine University. He is the author of Free Will and Human Agency: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments.
