What is Agentic AI and What Do Investors Need to Know About It?

We first want to talk about Agentic AI. We want to help understand how Agentic AI is different from other types of AI, and what type of investment opportunity it offers.

Yeah, I love this question because I'm not going to lie, the first time we were tossing around the idea of launching this new ETF, I really had to dive into this further myself. Agentic AI would be systems that make autonomous decisions to complete complex tasks with very little human intervention. So think things like self-driving cars or self-driving transportation, scheduling assistance, cyber security networks, autonomous industrial machinery, those types of things.

We're seeing this really as the next evolution of artificial intelligence, where we really started years ago with machine learning. Then we had generative AI, and now we have Agentic AI, where more and more companies are starting to incorporate it in their business process to either increase revenue, reduce expenses, or enhance the experience.

One of the things that we get questions on is, how is this different than generative AI? Because I think that's something that people use in the palm of their hand, at least I do, on a regular basis. Generative AI relies on human instruction to create content, and it can't independently handle complex tasks. That's much different than Agentic AI, and that's where we see this as offering potential to really transform industries over the coming years.