When millions of AI agents meet

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The conversation of the moment is focused on one topic: AI agents. Unlike traditional language models that simply respond to a prompt, autonomous agents can execute multi-step plans and perform complex tasks on your behalf. But what happens when millions of these agents are not just working for us, but transacting, negotiating, and delegating to one another?



Nenad Tomašev, Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, joins host Hannah Fry to discuss the theoretical framework of a future"agentic economy." Together, they discuss the operational shift from single systems to a cooperative "society of specialists," the psychological risk of human automation bias, and the complex cybersecurity landscape—from dynamic cloaking to agentic traps—required to keep distributed intelligence secure.



Timecodes:

00:00 Intro

1:07 Defining AI agents

4:44 Agentic exploration in science and research

15:46 Delegation between agents

22:46 Agentic security and traps

29:31 Building an agentic economy

33:22 Cognitive monoculture

36:29 Distributed intelligence



To read the research, search for:

Distributional AGI Safety, May 2026

Intelligent AI Delegation, February 2026

Virtual Agent Economies, September 2025



Learn more about our AGI control roadmap: https://deepmind.google/blog/securing-the-future-of-ai-agents/



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