How is an AI agent different from a chatbot?
Chatbots handle conversation while agents perform actions, requiring a governance model similar to a privileged service account rather than a content surface.
A chatbot answers. An agent acts. The chatbot lives in the conversation layer and hands off to a human or a workflow when something needs to happen. The agent owns the doing. That difference is why the governance model for agents looks more like the model for a privileged service account than like the model for a content surface.
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