{"product_id":"the-agentic-ai-challenge-robert-forbes-9798996807710","title":"The Agentic AI Challenge: Executive Parables for the Age of Autonomous AI","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat can a house sitter, a bottle of water, and Ferris Bueller's day off teach a boardroom about artificial intelligence? More than any technical manual - and that's exactly the point.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgentic AI has arrived, and it doesn't just answer questions anymore. It reasons, plans, and takes action on your behalf, with growing autonomy and shrinking oversight. That shift lands squarely on the executives, board members, and general counsel who \u003cem\u003eauthorize\u003c\/em\u003e these systems without ever configuring them - and the questions it raises aren't technical. They're leadership questions: where to place trust, how to govern risk, and when human judgment must stay at the center of the decision.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Agentic AI Challenge\u003c\/em\u003e answers them without a single line of code.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough ten deceptively familiar parables - a house sitter who never gave the keys back, bottled water you drank in good faith, a valet who took the car airborne - Robert Forbes surfaces the structural failure modes hiding inside autonomous systems. There is no villain in these pages. The danger isn't a scheming machine; it's a system granted more standing capability than anyone intended.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt its center is one clarifying argument: \u003cstrong\u003eyou cannot govern what an agent \u003cem\u003emight\u003c\/em\u003e do - that surface is infinite. You govern what it \u003cem\u003ecan\u003c\/em\u003e do.\u003c\/strong\u003e It's the logic of Zero Trust, carried into a domain that didn't exist when those principles were drawn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWith a foreword by Tammy Moskites, career CISO and CEO\/Founder of CyAlliance(R).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten for the C-suite, the boardroom, and the CISO who needs to open the conversation upward, this is a short, sharp book that informs without overwhelming and challenges without preaching. It won't hand you every answer. It will leave you asking far better ones - which, in the age of autonomous AI, may be the most important executive skill of all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Forbes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798996807710\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hematite Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/02\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 124\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.29d","brand":"Robert Forbes","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997965725951,"sku":"9798996807710","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-agentic-ai-challenge-robert-forbes-9798996807710","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}