AI agents need to think together, not just connect

Current AI agents can connect and perform tasks sequentially, but they lack the ability to truly collaborate and share cognitive understanding. Vijoy Pandey of Outshift by Cisco highlights this as a major bottleneck for next-generation AI systems, likening the current state to individual intelligence without effective communication. He proposes the development of new protocols and infrastructure, termed the 'internet of cognition,' to enable shared intent, context, and collective innovation among AI entities. This advancement aims to allow agents to solve novel problems autonomously, mirroring human collective intelligence evolution. Cisco is developing protocols like SSTP, LSTP, and CSTP to facilitate this synchronized cognition across distributed systems.