We can struggle to maintain working relationships when our social group grows too large, but it seems that artificial intelligence models may not face the same limitation, suggesting thousands of AIs could work together to solve problems that humans can’t.
The idea that there is a fundamental limit on how many people we can interact with dates back to the 1990s, when anthropologist Robin Dunbar noticed a link between the size of a primate’s brain and the typical size of its social group. Extrapolating to humans,…