"There's No Swarm": Researcher Pushes Back on Agent-Swarm Fear Narratives
gerardsans · x · 2026-09-23
Pushing back on media "agent swarm" narratives, gerardsans argues: "There's no swarm. An 'agent' is a role-play prompt, a query. A loop running 'agents' is still a single system. A chatbot receiving a million queries is still one system."
He warns against giving platforms to safety companies that "spread fear for profit" — a pointed take on agent security narratives and their commercial motives.
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