Two AI releases early this year are prompting users to give up control and let autonomous agentic tools complete tasks on their behalf. IT leaders should be ready to deal with the consequences. Anthropic rolled out its agentic platform Claude Cowork in January for macOs and February for Windows, and use of agentic tool OpenClaw skyrocketed early this year after developer Peter Steinberger, now with OpenAI, launched the open-source project in late 2025. While most organizations are focused on deploying AI that augments human work, there’s been a huge spike in interest in autonomous agentic AI since late last year, says Neal Riley, innovation lead and former CIO at IT consultancy and digital t...