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Are AI Agents Rewriting The Consumer Adoption Curve?
AI is becoming part of everyday life—but letting it act on our behalf is a different question altogether. Based on a survey of 1,050 consumers across mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, this article explores why AI assistance is becoming mainstream while agentic AI still faces barriers of trust, relevance and control, revealing that adoption is less about capability than permission.
