The Agentic Web, Explained: Why Openness Matters for Competition
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The Agentic Web, Explained: Why Openness Matters for Competition
AI agents are software that can act on a person’s or business’s behalf: booking appointments, comparing prices, making purchases or handling customer service. They are quickly becoming everyday infrastructure, and how these agents connect to each other will shape who can compete in the markets they touch.
Today, most agents work only inside a single company’s ecosystem. If that pattern hardens, a small number of platforms could end up controlling how consumers and businesses reach each other. An open agentic web, where agents from any provider can work together, keeps the door open for new entrants, local businesses and consumer choice.
In this 30-minute online briefing, the Foundation for Agentic Networks (FAN) will cover:
The basics: what AI agents are and how the agentic web works, no technical background needed
Closed vs. open: the different ways agent networks can develop, and why the difference matters
The competition question: early findings from FAN’s research on the economic conditions needed to keep agent markets open and competitive
What to watch: the policy issues likely to come up in the next legislative sessions
The session ends with time for questions.
🗓 Monday, November 16
🕐 1:00pm ET · 12:00pm CT · 11:00am MT · 10:00am PT
(9:00am Alaska · 8:00am Hawaii)
⏱ 30 minutes
💻 Online. The link is sent on registration.
Designed for state legislators and their staff, new and returning. Can’t make it live? Register anyway and we’ll send you the recording.