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AI Agents

AI agents are systems that use AI to plan steps, use tools, make decisions, or take actions toward a goal with varying levels of autonomy. The term is often used broadly, so leaders should ask exactly what the agent can do, what tools it can access, and when humans approve actions.

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AI Copilots

An AI that works alongside the human — suggesting, drafting, and accelerating — while the human stays accountable for the result.

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Chatbots

A conversational interface for customers or employees — and a fast way to find out how good your underlying knowledge and processes actually are.

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Generative AI

Generative AI produces new content—text, images, code, summaries, audio—on demand, based on patterns learned from vast amounts of existing data.

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Multimodal AI

AI that can work with more than text — reading images, processing audio, interpreting video — which opens new capabilities and introduces risks that vary sharply by what it's perceiving.

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Prompt Engineering

Prompt engineering is the practice of writing clear instructions for an AI system, specifying the task, context, format, and constraints, so it produces more useful, consistent output.

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Text-to-Image Models

AI that generates images from text descriptions — genuinely useful for creative work, and carrying unsettled intellectual property and brand governance questions most organizations haven't resolved.