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When Agents Talk Back: Why AI Collectives Need a Social Theory

Teams are easy to draw and hard to govern. Put five AI agents in a workflow diagram and everything looks reassuringly corporate: one planner, one researcher, one coder, one critic, one manager. Give them arrows. Add a dashboard. Call it orchestration. Investors relax. Engineers nod. Consultants quietly increase the font size on the word “autonomous.” ...

January 16, 2026 · 18 min · Zelina