Counsel at the intersection of law, technology, and innovation

When the precedent hasn’t been set yet, we get to write it

Ken Priore

Why AI agents work in demos but fail in production

A new research paper from Stanford, Harvard, UC Berkeley, and Caltech — "Adaptation of Agentic AI" — provides the clearest framework I've seen for diagnosing what goes wrong when agentic AI systems move from controlled demonstrations to real-world deployment.

Why AI agents work in demos but fail in production