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Placeholder while I think about the practicalities and theory of AI agents.

See also Multi agent systems.

1 Factored cognition

Field of study? Or one company’s marketing term?

Factored Cognition | Ought:

In this project, we explore whether we can solve difficult problems by composing small and mostly context-free contributions from individual agents who don’t know the big picture.

2 Incoming

3 References

Bengio, Cohen, Fornasiere, et al. 2025. Superintelligent Agents Pose Catastrophic Risks: Can Scientist AI Offer a Safer Path?
Chen, Dong, Shu, et al. 2023. AutoAgents: A Framework for Automatic Agent Generation.”
Crutchfield, and Jurgens. 2025. Agentic Information Theory: Ergodicity and Intrinsic Semantics of Information Processes.”
Guo, Chen, Wang, et al. 2024. Large Language Model Based Multi-Agents: A Survey of Progress and Challenges.”
Hammond, Chan, Clifton, et al. 2025. Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI.”
Li, Al Kader Hammoud, Itani, et al. 2023. CAMEL: Communicative Agents for ‘Mind’ Exploration of Large Language Model Society.” In Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. NIPS ’23.
Rosser, and Foerster. 2025. AgentBreeder: Mitigating the AI Safety Impact of Multi-Agent Scaffolds via Self-Improvement.”
Schmidgall, Su, Wang, et al. 2025. Agent Laboratory: Using LLM Agents as Research Assistants.”
Wu, Bansal, Zhang, et al. 2023. AutoGen: Enabling Next-Gen LLM Applications via Multi-Agent Conversation.”