The Silent Failure in Every Multi-Agent System (with Vijoy Pandey)

Vijoy Pande, SVP and GM of Cisco's incubation engine Outshift, argues that multi-agent AI systems fail silently because connected agents do not share meaning. He presents data showing cognitive failures in every multi-agent session analyzed, introduces the open-source SCOPE platform with ACCORD and CONCORD protocols for keeping agents aligned, describes a quantum network run on New York City fiber, and makes the case for hardware that computes on probabilities rather than bits.