What is an AI agent?
An AI agent (or agentic AI) is an AI system that pursues a goal by planning and executing multi-step tasks with limited human intervention — calling tools and APIs, browsing, writing to systems of record, or transacting. The EU AI Act has no separate “agent” category: an agent is assessed like any AI system, but autonomy raises the stakes under existing rules — disclosure when people interact with it (Article 50), human oversight designed for systems that act rather than suggest, and high-risk classification when the agent operates in an Annex III domain (hiring, credit, essential services).
The legal pressure points
- Attribution: under Turkish contract law, an agent’s “declarations” generally bind the company deploying it — authority limits and spend caps belong in system design and counterparty terms;
- GPAI chain: agents built on foundation models inherit the GPAI value-chain questions (who is provider of what);
- Logging: agent action trails are your liability evidence — retain them.
Why it matters
Agent features convert content risk into action risk. See our agentic AI risk guide.