Kuala Lampur, Sept. 21 -- Artificial intelligence has become a field in which terminology often races ahead of reality.

Generative AI, agentic AI, artificial general intelligence and superintelligence are increasingly spoken of as though they belong to the same technological continuum and carry essentially the same dangers. They do not.

Generative AI can produce text, images, computer code, audio and increasingly sophisticated combinations of them.

Agentic AI goes further by allowing systems to pursue specified objectives through sequences of actions, sometimes with limited human intervention.

Both create serious problems.

Hallucination, cyber vulnerability, manipulation, privacy breaches, labour displacement, concentration of comput...