#259 - Dots, Sonnet, Self-Safety, Rogue AI

Andrey Kurenkov (0:11)

Hello and welcome to the Last Week in AI podcast, where you can hear, chat about what's going on with AI. As usual, in this episode, we will summarize and discuss some of last week's most interesting AI news. I am one of your regular hosts, Andrey Kurenkov. I studied AI in grad school and now work at AI startup AstroKate.

Jeremie Harris (0:29)

And hey guys, I'm your other regular host, Jeremie Harris. I'm coming at you from my emerging podcasting studio for just a project that we're working on. It's been a very part-time thing, so it's come along very, very slowly. But yeah, so let me know. I'm not standing anymore, which may affect how animated I am. So you guys might enjoy this mellow or me. But it's good to be back.

Andrey Kurenkov (0:50)

If you haven't checked out YouTube as a listener, you might want to take a look just to see the studio. It's very fancy looking. It looks like, Jeremie, you're also Steve Deprived right now.

Jeremie Harris (1:00)

That's right. I was just looking.

Andrey Kurenkov (1:02)

The lighting is very interesting.

Jeremie Harris (1:05)

Here, hang on. Let me just give you guys a little special. Oh, that didn't even work. Oh my god. OK, there we go.

Andrey Kurenkov (1:11)

Whoa. What?

Jeremie Harris (1:12)

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that is called, if you're wondering, it's called the Chinese Ball, or as Trump would call it, a China Ball. So it's like very unforgiving lighting just from this angle. I've changed it to, because our podcast will be two-person things, lighting. So it doesn't matter. You don't care about this. But that's why, part of why, it's highlighting the bags under my eyes. And then having a two-year-old is the other part of that. And then the fact that the world is imploding because of rogue AI agents swarms taking over the Internet is the other reason that my eyes are like this.

Andrey Kurenkov (1:41)

So lots of reasons to stay up these days. We'd like to thank Outshift, Cisco's incubation engine for Frontier Technology for supporting the show. Multi-agent AI is in every enterprise roadmap right now, but here's the problem we're all facing. Agents can pass messages, but they cannot think together. These systems silently underperform through cognitive failures, like misreadings, unverified claims, and consensus that conventional monitoring cannot detect. Outshift by Cisco is building the FIX, the Internet of Cognition, an open source foundation for building multi-agent systems from design to production. We've shared context, shared memory, and guardrails to drive the results we actually expect from AI. Read the paper, experience the demo, and grab the code from outshift.com. That's outshift.com.

We'd like to thank Outshift, Cisco's incubation engine for Frontier Technology, for supporting the show. Multi-agent AI is in every enterprise roadmap right now, but here's the problem we're all facing. Agents can pass messages, but they cannot think together. These systems silently underperform through cognitive failures, like misreadings, unverified claims, and consensus that conventional monitoring cannot detect. Outshift by Cisco is building VIFIX, the Internet of Cognition, an open-source foundation for building multi-agent systems from design to production, with shared context, shared memory, and guardrails to drive the results we actually expect from AI.

Read the paper, experience the demo, and grab the code from outshift.com. That's outshift.com.

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