The agentic divide is here: Well-resourced firms plug AI agents into their entire stack and scale infinitely. Everyone else gets high-friction, low-trust tools that can barely fill out a form. India’s government-led citizen agent programs are trying to close the gap. (Rina Chandran, Rest of World)
- Well-resourced firms integrating agents into their entire stack will outperform those stuck with low-trust, high-friction tools that struggle to fill out a form. India's government is pushing citizen agents for 1.4 billion people, but the same infrastructure that promises inclusion can become a surveillance layer, and access can be revoked by Anthropic or OpenAI at any time. The real divide is not just who has agents but who has good ones: every layer added above the base model reintroduces skill and capital barriers that compound over time.
