Normal privacy thresholds for human-to-human communication won't cut it for agent-to-agent communication.

  • Normal privacy thresholds for human-to-human communication won't cut it for agent-to-agent communication.
    • Human-to-human communication is naturally limited by human time being extremely precious.
    • You only bother communicating with someone if it's likely to be useful.[a]
    • But agents have infinite patience, and new ones can be spun up in a second.
    • Also, LLMs are great at reading between the lines and remembering what was said.
      • Humans have to actively focus to maintain that level of insight.
    • Imagine if your agents were talking with all of your LinkedIn contacts constantly to see if it might make sense for you two to meet.
    • Sensitive information about your schedule and priorities would be sloshing all over the place.
    • For the use cases that are beyond what humans would do today, we'll need a new physics of trust.

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