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AI agent

Also known as: AI agents, agent

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KG-RAG: Bridging the Gap Between Knowledge and Creativity - arXiv arxiv.org arXiv May 20, 2024 6 facts
claimAn AI agent is composed of three core components: perception, brain, and action.
claimAI agents are designed to operate using the Sense-Plan-Act autonomous operation cycle, which involves perceiving environments, making decisions, and executing actions.
claimAn AI agent consists of three core components: perception, brain, and action.
claimAI agents are designed to operate using the Sense-Plan-Act autonomous operation cycle, which involves perceiving environments, making decisions, and executing actions.
claimThe brain of an AI agent serves as the decision-making core responsible for reasoning, planning, and storing the agent’s knowledge and memories.
claimThe brain of an AI agent serves as the decision-making core responsible for reasoning, planning, and storing the agent’s knowledge and memories.
Enterprise AI Requires the Fusion of LLM and Knowledge Graph linkedin.com Jacob Seric · LinkedIn Jan 2, 2025 5 facts
claimAI agents are most effective in healthcare scenarios that involve at least two of the following: high data volume, unstructured data, or non-deterministic decision-making.
claimAI agents range in complexity from simple chat interfaces to fully autonomous systems.
accountPrompt Opinion has developed a framework for building AI agents that operate across clinical and operational healthcare workflows.
claimThe implementation of an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server allows AI agents to access governed, high-quality business data, enabling them to comprehend data meaning, usage constraints, and governance rules automatically.
claimAI agents can be applied to clinical decision support, patient summarization, clinical trial matching, and prior authorization in healthcare.
Context Graph vs Knowledge Graph: Key Differences for AI - Atlan atlan.com Atlan Jan 27, 2026 5 facts
procedurePlatforms perform dynamic context assembly for AI by gathering task-specific context, including business definitions, lineage, quality signals, usage patterns, and policy constraints, into a single response for AI agents rather than serving static metadata.
claimKnowledge graphs integrate with BI tools, search, and semantic layers, whereas context graphs integrate with governance systems, orchestration platforms, quality tools, and AI agents.
claimCustomer support teams use context graphs to combine product knowledge with operational context, such as ticket history, policy changes, and past exceptions, allowing AI agents to handle escalations by referencing resolution precedent.
claimContext graphs allow AI agents to reuse prior resolutions for edge cases by treating decision history as searchable, traversable graph elements rather than external audit logs.
procedureThe process for an AI agent to resolve ambiguity in a query like 'What was our Q4 revenue?' using a context graph involves: (1) The agent receives the ambiguous query; (2) The context graph identifies the organization’s fiscal calendar definition node; (3) The graph maps the term 'Q4' to the specific fiscal Q4 period (October through December), preventing the model from defaulting to the calendar Q4 and returning an incorrect value.
Designing Knowledge Graphs for AI Reasoning, Not Guesswork linkedin.com Piers Fawkes · LinkedIn Jan 14, 2026 4 facts
claimThe primary bottleneck for AI agent performance is the data flow architecture rather than the specific Large Language Model (LLM) utilized.
claimPiers Fawkes asserts that the gap between a demo and a production AI agent is not the Large Language Model itself, but rather the mastery of data flow.
quoteJaya Gupta and Ashu Garg state: "AI agents are hitting a wall. The wall isn't missing data. It's missing decision traces."
procedureThe first six stages of the '12 Critical Stages of AI Agent Data Flow' are: (1) Data Intake & Parsing, which transforms user prompts, API events, webhooks, or sensor signals into structured data; (2) Short-Term Memory Retrieval, which pulls the last 3-5 conversation turns to maintain context; (3) Long-Term Context Activation, which moves historical data from cold storage into an active workspace; (4) Knowledge Base Grounding, which injects external factual data from documents, databases, and APIs to prevent hallucination; (5) Governance & Policy Injection, which applies safety rules, permission scopes, and budget limits; and (6) Multi-Hop Reasoning & Planning, where agents break down complex goals into step sequences and evaluate trade-offs.
LLM Observability: How to Monitor AI When It Thinks in Tokens | TTMS ttms.com TTMS Feb 10, 2026 2 facts
accountAn AI agent bug caused the agent to call itself in an infinite loop, resulting in significant financial costs, which could have been prevented by robust monitoring of call rates.
quoteDatadog's product description states that their LLM Observability provides "tracing across AI agents with visibility into inputs, outputs, latency, token usage, and errors at each step."
How to combine LLMs and Knowledge Graphs for enterprise AI linkedin.com Tony Seale · LinkedIn Nov 14, 2025 2 facts
claimIf an AI Agent's objectives mismatch the ontological constraints provided to it, the resulting output may become unmanageable.
perspectiveTony Seale argues that for AI agents to learn to reason, remember, and act with integrity, they require formal structure beneath the neural layer.
Building Trustworthy NeuroSymbolic AI Systems - arXiv arxiv.org arXiv 2 facts
claimAdherence to clinical guidelines is crucial for AI safety, particularly when users attempt to deceive AI agents or seek guidance on sensitive actions such as mental health issues or potential suicide attempts, as discussed by Reagle and Gaur (2022).
claimParaphrasing serves as a technique to enhance an AI agent’s calibration by making it aware of the different ways an input could be expressed by a user (Du, Xing, and Cambria 2023).
Unlocking the Potential of Generative AI through Neuro-Symbolic ... arxiv.org arXiv Feb 16, 2025 2 facts
claimMoE-based coordination allows agents to dynamically activate subsets of experts based on context, enabling scalable specialization in complex environments.
referenceBelle et al. [77] explored how combining symbolic reasoning and agents can enable the development of advanced systems that approach human-like intelligence, specifically by using symbolic reasoning to mediate communication between agents to ensure adherence to predefined rules.
Applying Large Language Models in Knowledge Graph-based ... arxiv.org Benedikt Reitemeyer, Hans-Georg Fill · arXiv Jan 7, 2025 1 fact
procedureThe study defined three research questions for both human actors and AI agents: (1) In what sequence are ArchiMate elements for a specific viewpoint prioritized in relation to a given domain concept? (2) What is the probability that an ArchiMate element from a specific viewpoint will be proposed as an instance for a given domain concept? (3) What is the proposed relationship type between ArchiMate elements and a given domain concept?
KR 2026 : 23rd International Conference on Principles of ... - WikiCFP wikicfp.com WikiCFP 1 fact
claimThe field of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR) has contributed to AI areas including agents, automated planning, robotics, and natural language processing, as well as fields such as data management, the semantic web, verification, software engineering, computational biology, and cybersecurity.
Non-physicalist Theories of Consciousness cambridge.org Cambridge University Press Dec 20, 2023 1 fact
quoteAccording to QBism, the probabilities derived from the wave function should be interpreted as expressing “the beliefs of the agent who makes [predictions based on them], and refer to that same agent’s expectations for her subsequent experiences.”
Cybersecurity Trends and Predictions 2025 From Industry Insiders itprotoday.com ITPro Today 1 fact
claimThreat attackers will exploit unsecured agentic AI services to harvest data and credentials, and will also utilize AI agents to automate and accelerate their own malicious attacks.
Complexity and the Evolution of Consciousness | Biological Theory link.springer.com Springer Sep 14, 2022 1 fact
claimA system can be usefully described as an agent if there is a goal toward which all of its processes and mechanisms work.
Attention - Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science - MIT oecs.mit.edu MIT Jul 24, 2024 1 fact
claimIntention acts as a top-down bias that can resolve behavioral competition by allowing an agent to arbitrarily select a target, such as a donkey deciding to eat the hay on the left.
AI Sessions #9: The Case Against AI Consciousness (with Anil Seth) conspicuouscognition.com Conspicuous Cognition Feb 17, 2026 1 fact
claimAnthropic is developing constitutions for its AI model, Claude, based on the consideration that the AI agents might possess their own interests due to potential consciousness.
Quantum Approaches to Consciousness plato.stanford.edu Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Nov 30, 2004 1 fact
claimIn the quantum agency model proposed by Briegel and Müller, an agent's behavior is simulated as a non-deterministic quantum random walk within the agent's memory space.