AI Summit: Navigating the new defaults of the agentic web
The Economic Times·2026-02-19 18:16

To say that AI is bringing about a paradigm shift is an understatement. It collapses time, decision-making, negotiation and trust, and brings in autonomous action. Actions are no longer limited by human limitations, and humans are rarely in control of what is going on. To discuss the impact of AI and how we must adapt and respond to it, we must understand how defaults we took for granted in the digital age have changed. Machines are the primary actors now. The amount of agentic traffic on the web is on trac ...