Shutterstock / Futurism AI agents used to be all the rage, the supposed next hit product category after generative AI failed to generate productive returns. Now, the bill on all that hype is coming due. According to some estimates, up to 79 percent of US corporate execs have some type of AI agent in the making — but one Gartner prediction found 40 percent of these projects will implode due to poor risk controls. In a nutshell, AI agents are capable of infl