AI agents — autonomous, task-specific systems designed to perform functions with little or no human intervention — are gaining traction in the healthcare world. The industry is under massive pressure to lower costs without compromising care quality, and health tech experts believe agentic AI could be a scalable solution that can help with this arduous goal.

However, this AI category comes with greater risk than that of its AI predecessors, according to one cybersecurity and data privacy attorney.

Lily Li, founder of law firm Metaverse Law , noted that agentic AI systems, by definition, are designed to handle actions on a consumer or organization’s behalf — and this takes the human out of the loop for potentially important decisions or tasks.

“If there are hallucinations or errors in

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