Challenging AI Assumptions

At a Boston conference, experts said AI’s next phase will depend on collaboration, not just smarter standalone models.

Panelists challenged three assumptions: that intelligence lives inside one agent, that infrastructure should stay centralized, and that agents will communicate easily.

They argued for interaction-focused design, open protocols, and community-built foundations for agentic systems.

The takeaway: reliable agent-to-agent communication and decentralized infrastructure may matter more than raw model capability.