AI Engineer · July 23, 2026

Why Agentic Systems Need Ontologies — Frank Coyle, UC Berkeley

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Why it matters

A second refund on the same order. A payout sent to the support desk instead of the buyer. An order status of "probably shipped." These are the kinds of mistakes a probabilistic agent makes and a paragraph of instructions cannot reliably stop.

My takeaway: Why Agentic Systems Need Ontologies — Frank Coyle, UC Berkeley is an agent-security signal. The practical read is that autonomy, memory, tool permissions, and third-party integrations are the control surface that needs threat modeling and monitoring.