The Data Contract: What Agentic AI Actually Needs
In the first article of this series, we explored why simply adding AI to existing OSS environments has failed to deliver autonomous networks. The issue isn't the intelligence of today's AI models - it's the fragmented operational data they're forced to work with. But identifying the problem is only the beginning. What does Agentic AI actually require before it can operate a telecommunications network autonomously? The answer isn't another Large Language Model, a more sophisticated reasoning engine, or more dashboards. Autonomous AI needs a trusted operational foundation built upon a common understanding of reality - a data contract. Artificial intelligence is only as reliable as the data it can trust Most AI readiness discussions focus on data quality—whether information is accurate, complete, and clean. Those characteristics matter, but they aren’t enough. Autonomous AI continuously observes changing conditions, reasons about cause and effect, predicts outcomes,...