Russell and Norvig discuss “intelligent agents” in AIMA (2003) and they don’t mean web scrapers or database scripts, but they also don’t mean that the thing they’re discussing is conscious or super-rational or anything fancy like that. A self-driving car is an “agent” in their sense.
I suspect the use of “agentic” to mean something like “highly instrumentally rational” — as in “I want to become more agentic” — is an LW idiosyncrasy.
In human psychology, Milgram used “agentic” to mean “obedient”, in contrast to “autonomous”!
As an aside, the origins of “LGBT” and “racism” are not quite what you say. A historical dictionary may help. “LGBT” was itself an expansion of earlier terms. LGB (and GLB) were used in the 1990s; and LG is found in the 1970s, for instance in the name of the ILGA which was originally the International Lesbian & Gay Association and more recently the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association while retaining the shorter initialism.
Russell and Norvig discuss “intelligent agents” in AIMA (2003) and they don’t mean web scrapers or database scripts, but they also don’t mean that the thing they’re discussing is conscious or super-rational or anything fancy like that. A self-driving car is an “agent” in their sense.
I suspect the use of “agentic” to mean something like “highly instrumentally rational” — as in “I want to become more agentic” — is an LW idiosyncrasy.
In human psychology, Milgram used “agentic” to mean “obedient”, in contrast to “autonomous”!
As an aside, the origins of “LGBT” and “racism” are not quite what you say. A historical dictionary may help. “LGBT” was itself an expansion of earlier terms. LGB (and GLB) were used in the 1990s; and LG is found in the 1970s, for instance in the name of the ILGA which was originally the International Lesbian & Gay Association and more recently the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association while retaining the shorter initialism.