Opening — Why this matters now The AI industry has a small addiction to the word agent. Add another agent, then another, then a few hundred more, and the slide deck begins to smell faintly of civilization. Somewhere between “workflow automation” and “digital society,” we are invited to believe that scale itself becomes intelligence. ...
Consensus is comforting. That is the problem. In a meeting, consensus often means people have compared evidence, challenged assumptions, and settled on a workable answer. In a multi-agent AI system, consensus can look similar from the outside: several agents interact, exchange outputs, and converge on one shared response. The dashboard shows agreement. The workflow moves on. Everyone enjoys the small luxury of not asking what just happened. ...