Agentic AI is evolving into persistent swarm systems. Instead of single agents completing discrete tasks, 'the loop' describes architectures where multiple AI agents run continuously in the background, operating without a defined endpoint.
The shift matters because it changes the human role from operator to supervisor. These systems don't wait for prompts. They monitor, decide, and act on their own cycle, which raises immediate questions about resource consumption, error propagation, and accountability when something goes wrong inside an unattended process.
The full piece is worth reading for how it frames the authorization problem: who grants a swarm of agents indefinite operating permissions, and under what conditions can that permission be revoked. That governance gap is the real story here.
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