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The speaker suggests that a distributed collective AI system might face additional bottlenecks due to communication among its agents.
Tim Scarfe · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sept 2026
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“Maybe if it is, it's only insofar as when you have a distributed collective system,”
“you might have additional bottlenecks because you have all of the message passing between all the different agents and whatnot.”Play from 46:45Report a misattribution
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