Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The conversation of the moment is focused on one topic: AI agents. Unlike traditional language models that simply respond to a prompt, autonomous agents can execute multi-step plans and perform complex tasks on your behalf. But what happens when millions of these agents are not just working for us, but transacting, negotiating, and delegating to one another?
Nenad Tomašev, Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, joins host Hannah Fry to discuss the theoretical framework of a future"agentic economy." Together, they discuss the operational shift from single systems to a cooperative "society of specialists," the psychological risk of human automation bias, and the complex cybersecurity landscape—from dynamic cloaking to agentic traps—required to keep distributed intelligence secure.
Timecodes:
00:00 Intro
1:07 Defining AI agents
4:44 Agentic exploration in science and research
15:46 Delegation between agents
22:46 Agentic security and traps
29:31 Building an agentic economy
33:22 Cognitive monoculture
36:29 Distributed intelligence
To read the research, search for:
Distributional AGI Safety, May 2026
Intelligent AI Delegation, February 2026
Virtual Agent Economies, September 2025
Learn more about our AGI control roadmap: https://deepmind.google/blog/securing-the-future-of-ai-agents/
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The conversation of the moment is focused on one topic: AI agents. Unlike traditional language models that simply respond to a prompt, autonomous agents can execute multi-step plans and perform complex tasks on your behalf. But what happens when millions of these agents are not just working for us, but transacting, negotiating, and delegating to one another?
Nenad Tomašev, Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, joins host Hannah Fry to discuss the theoretical framework of a future"agentic economy." Together, they discuss the operational shift from single systems to a cooperative "society of specialists," the psychological risk of human automation bias, and the complex cybersecurity landscape—from dynamic cloaking to agentic traps—required to keep distributed intelligence secure.
Timecodes:
00:00 Intro
1:07 Defining AI agents
4:44 Agentic exploration in science and research
15:46 Delegation between agents
22:46 Agentic security and traps
29:31 Building an agentic economy
33:22 Cognitive monoculture
36:29 Distributed intelligence
To read the research, search for:
Distributional AGI Safety, May 2026
Intelligent AI Delegation, February 2026
Virtual Agent Economies, September 2025
Learn more about our AGI control roadmap: https://deepmind.google/blog/securing-the-future-of-ai-agents/
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Subscribe to our channel youtube.com/@googledeepmind
Find us on X https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind
Follow us on Instagram instagram.com/googledeepmind
Add us on Linkedin linkedin.com/company/deepmind
