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The Agentic Arms Race - Naming the War We're Already In, By KC Stark Most people believe we are watching artificial intelligence evolve. In reality, we are already living inside something far more consequential: a global competition to deploy agentic systems-autonomous technologies that act independently, persistently, and at scale. This competition has no declarations, no borders, and no visible front lines. Yet it is quietly reshaping power, trust, opportunity, and control long before human judgment enters the process. In The Agentic Arms Race, KC Stark names this shift for what it is and explains why it matters now. This book is not about future predictions or technological hype. It is a clear-eyed examination of how agency has moved out of visible institutions and into automated systems that decide what is seen, trusted, surfaced, priced, or ignored. Stark shows how small upstream decisions scale into irreversible outcomes, why opting out is no longer a meaningful form of resistance, and how trust has become the most powerful currency in an agentic world. Inside, readers will explore: Why agency-not intelligence-is the true force reshaping modern power How recognition determines inclusion or quiet exclusion Why humans permanently lost the speed advantage in complex systems How escalation occurs without intent, visibility, or aggression Who is already losing-and why most don't realize it What strategic survival looks like when there is no ""outside"" to exit to Why responsibility persists long after escalation fades into infrastructure The Agentic Arms Race is written for leaders, builders, creators, and thinkers who sense that something fundamental has changed but lack the language to describe it. It does not argue for fear or resistance. It argues for clarity. The war was never declared. But it already has a name.

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