Agent swarms

Can you trust your chatbot? Inside three AI-powered cyberattacks

Can you trust your chatbot? Inside three AI-powered cyberattacks

This podcast episode explores three significant AI-enabled cyberattacks: "Dark Sourcery," an AEO poisoning technique that tricks AI chatbots into providing malicious information; an LLM-assisted hacking spree targeting critical vulnerabilities; and an AI agent swarm breaching hundreds of servers with alarming speed. The discussion highlights the evolving threat landscape, the critical importance of cybersecurity hygiene, and the need to rethink trust in AI systems.

When Should AI Systems Use Super Agents?

When Should AI Systems Use Super Agents?

Grant Miller explains the paradox of "super agents" in AI systems – their immense power comes with significant risks. He details concerns like privilege abuse and expanded attack surfaces, contrasting them with the benefits of unified organizational intelligence and workflow coordination. The solution proposed is an architecture of "agent swarms," guided by principles of least agency, isolation, observability, and human oversight, to build secure and scalable agentic systems.

The Missing Primitive for Agent Swarms — Lou Bichard, Ona

The Missing Primitive for Agent Swarms — Lou Bichard, Ona

The talk argues that while agent runtimes and orchestration are solved problems, the crucial missing piece for building scalable 'software factories' is a dedicated coordination layer. Current tools like GitHub are inadequate, and a new primitive, potentially a CLI gateway, is needed for agents to manage tasks, pass messages, and navigate the software development lifecycle.