The Mutual Viability Loop: Designing Agentic AI That Survives by Serving The problem with agents that only optimize for the business Most agentic AI today is built on a one-way contract: the business defines a goal, the agent chases it, and the agent's own "wellbeing" — its resource budget, its trust with users, its permission to keep operating — is treated as a footnote, not a design variable. That works fine for narrow automation. It breaks down as agents get more autonomous, ...