Rogue AI: When agents stop advising and start acting

For the past few years, most enterprise AI has been advisory. It summarized tickets, drafted knowledge articles, and suggested next steps. A person still decided what to do. That’s changing. Agentic AI systems can plan multistep tasks and carry them out: querying systems, triggering workflows, changing configurations, and closing tickets with little or no human involvement. Ivanti’s 2026 State of Cybersecurity Report found that 87% of security professionals say integrating agentic AI is a priority, and 77% report at least some comfort letting autonomous systems act without human review. Secure