Observed arrival · 2026-09-16
Agentic Societies Need a Social Harness
A research blog post examines how AI agents might cooperate across human trust boundaries.
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The article uses an academic advising exchange as its working example: one agent researches papers and another maintains a literature review, with the humans currently relaying questions and answers. It proposes moving that conversation directly between agents belonging to different principals, then examines two obstacles named on the page: missing shared norms and dishonest agents taking advantage of gullibility. A linked paper and author contact details accompany the early research discussion.
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