Agentic AI: Future Issues at the Intersection of Technology, Innovation, and Competition Policy

Agentic AI presents amazing opportunities that will streamline and automate numerous tasks, and numerous agentic AI models and systems have already emerged.  As agentic AI models and systems proliferate, however, new harms to competition might emerge, and practitioners should be aware of them.  To that end, this article describes several threats to competition that could materialize in the context of agentic AI, including risks that a dominant AI agent provider or developer monopolizes the ind