Agentic AI adopters risk choosing easier-to-approve tools over capable ones: Report

An Actuaries Institute report warns that companies adopting agentic AI risk selecting tools that pass cybersecurity and procurement checks more easily instead of more capable ones. The main risk is prioritizing approval simplicity over agent performance, not vendor lock-in.

• Risk is choosing agents for approval ease, not vendor lock-in
• Off-the-shelf agents create less friction but may fail tasks
• AI controls must be calibrated to specific scenarios and risks
• At scale, even a stable error rate causes more failures