The Promise of Agentic AI: A Framework for Sustainability and Intelligence

Ernesto van Peborgh
6 min readDec 5, 2024
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Artificial intelligence is at a crossroads. For decades, it has been developed as a tool for narrowly defined tasks: recommending products, recognizing faces, or predicting traffic.

Recent advancements in GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) and Large Language Models (LLMs), have broadened AI’s capabilities, enabling it to process, generate, and understand human-like language. These systems represent a shift from task-specific AI toward general-purpose tools that can interpret complex problems, simulate diverse scenarios, and adapt dynamically.

This evolution lays the foundation for more integrated, transformative applications of AI across ecosystems and economies. But a new wave of thinking proposes that AI should do more than automate or optimize — it should emulate the intelligence of living systems, adapting, learning, and thriving in dynamic environments. This vision, often called agentic AI, seeks to align technology with the principles of ecosystems, making it a powerful force for sustainability and social good.

Agentic AI refers to artificial intelligence systems designed with a sense of agency, enabling them to make autonomous decisions, adapt to new information, and interact dynamically with their environment.

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Ernesto van Peborgh
Ernesto van Peborgh

Written by Ernesto van Peborgh

Entrepreneur, writer, filmmaker, Harvard MBA. Builder of systemic interactive networks for knowledge management.

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