Will Agentic AI Bring Fantasia's Sorcerer's Apprentice to Life? A Conversation With Tracy Bannon
InfoQ, Monday, August 17th, 2026
Tracy Bannon discusses security risk, cognitive overload and skill erosion from agentic AI systems.
In this podcast, Tracy Bannon explores how agentic AI introduces security vulnerabilities when agents cross ecosystem boundaries, and how human reviewers face cognitive overload managing massive AI-generated output.
She warns that over-reliance on automated systems risks diminishing human expertise. The conversation covers the difficulty of testing non-deterministic agents and how the software development lifecycle may adapt.
She also clarifies that AI vulnerability discovery is an evolution of existing cybersecurity threats, not a wholly new category.