The Rise of Agentic AI - When Intelligence is Cheap, Verification is King

In this episode of The Signal Boost, host Sergio sits down with Gordon Burtch, professor of Modern AI at NYU Stern MSBAi Program, Allen and Kelli Questrom Professor of Information Systems at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business and a Research Scientist with Meta’s Central Applied Science group. They get into what agentic AI actually means in practice, the real obstacles companies face when deploying these systems in regulated industries like banking and healthcare, and why the unpredictability of large language models is something businesses may need to accept rather than solve.Professor Burtch also weighs in on the sustainability of AI training data, the economics pushing companies toward leaner and more efficient models, and why the biggest bottleneck in an AI-saturated world is no longer producing content but verifying it.The conversation covers a look at where the next wave of improvements is coming from and the use cases that have barely been touched yet.