
7 Types of AI Agents Every Security Team Needs to Know (And How to Govern Each One)
Most “types of AI agents” guides are written for the people building them. This one is written for the people who have to answer for what those agents do once they’re running. Same seven architectures - rule-based, conversational, predictive, collaborative, adaptive, RPA, and cognitive - but classified by what actually determines risk: autonomy, system reach, and permission inheritance. Because a rule-based agent and a fully autonomous one don’t belong under the same policy, and most enterprise AI risk programs stall exactly because they’re treated like they do.













