Blog Security Agentic AI Is Here — and It’s Shaping the Future of Bot Defense Tsvika Klein is a Senior Director of Product Management at Akamai, where he leads the Bot and Abuse Protection portfolio. The adoption of AI bots and AI chatbots is only accelerating, bringing with it both opportunities and risks. Imagine a world in which autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents seamlessly optimize and handle everyday tasks for you — from booking reservations to purchasing event tickets, managing vacation logistics, and ordering groceries— all without any manual effort or human intervention.  \r\n This is not a far-off future; this is happening now, driven by the rapid adoption of AI bots. Among them, a new paradigm is emerging: agentic  AI  — a class of AI bots capable of autonomous decision-making that operates with increasing sophistication and independence.…