AI is transforming traditional data science workflows by integrating agentic AI, which introduces intelligent, autonomous agents that actively manage and optimize every stage of the data science lifecycle. These agents continuously ingest data, detect anomalies, suggest relevant features, tune models in real time, and even monitor post-deployment drift without constant human oversight. Agentic AI modernizes data science from a reactive process into a proactive, self-improving system, accelerating outcomes while ensuring accuracy and trust. By automating labor-intensive tasks such as data cleaning, normalization, and transformation, AI enables faster model delivery, improved accuracy, and a more agile data science operation. With agentic AI, organizations can reduce friction and eliminate bottlenecks at every stage, empower data scientists to focus on high-value, strategic work, and achieve faster time to insights, improved model accuracy, scalability, reduced human error, and better collaboration.