Agentic systems raise the stakes beyond GenAI - shaping how people decide, work, and buy. Between techno-utopia, runaway superintelligence, and the “idiocracy” risk of cognitive offloading, enterprise leaders must choose a path that elevates human judgment while scaling impact. This closing fireside explores practical ways enterprises can harness agents responsibly - societal impact first, ethics and safety by design, augmentation over replacement.
• Anchoring on augmentation: design roles, skills, incentives that keep humans essential everywhere.
• Operationalising guardrails: safety, privacy, provenance, accountability across autonomous agent workflows and decisions.
• Measuring cognitive offloading risks; establish Bionic Context Protocols to preserve judgment capabilities.