The Agentic Futures Initiative will host a first-of-its-kind symposium in Washington, D.C. focused on the policy, governance, and deployment implications of agentic AI. This half-day, in-person convening will bring together cross-sector leaders, including congressional staff, federal agency officials, and industry leaders, for substantive dialogue about the policy implications of this rapidly evolving technology.
This is the moment for policymakers, industry, and civil society to shape the frameworks that will govern the next era of AI.
The next 12–18 months will determine whether agentic AI is governed by frameworks built for the AI of 2023, or by frameworks built for the systems being deployed today. The decisions made in this window will shape the regulatory architecture for the decade ahead.
Three panels and three fireside chats over a tightly run morning, followed by lunch. Each session is built to advance one or more of the four questions framing the day.
Additional speakers and panel assignments to be announced. Agenda subject to change.
Agentic AI isn't a faster chatbot. It is a fundamentally new category of system: one that takes actions, makes decisions, and operates with a degree of autonomy the existing policy stack was never designed to govern.
The frameworks regulating AI today were largely built for predictive and generative models, systems that respond to prompts. Agentic systems do something different: they pursue goals, interact with other systems, transact, and adapt over time. That shift breaks key assumptions in everything from liability law to cybersecurity standards to data privacy regimes.
The Agentic Futures Initiative exists because the technology is moving faster than the policy frameworks meant to govern it. This symposium is one piece of a broader effort: to give policymakers a clear-eyed view of what these systems actually do, and to bring industry and government into direct dialogue before the regulatory architecture sets.
AFI is a cross-industry coalition of the companies building agentic AI systems and the operators deploying them, spanning frontier AI development, cloud infrastructure, financial services, enterprise software, and defense technology.
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