Why CIOs See APIs As Vital For Agentic AI Success
CIO, Wednesday, July 9th, 2025
Today's AI is all talk. Tomorrow's will tap APIs to drive real action.
Currently, AI agents are largely conversational. You prompt it, and it spits back an answer. While context windows have grown and integrations with external documents are improving, AI is still limited in how it interacts with the real world. However, this is poised to change dramatically as AI agents become more aware of application programming interfaces (APIs).
'APIs are going to be central to getting real value from agentic AI,' says Rebecca Fox, group CIO at cybersecurity consultancy, NCC Group. 'APIs are the glue - without them, agentic AI can't effectively combine or orchestrate processes across different systems.'