Scaling Intelligence Out: Cisco's Vision for the Internet of Cognition, with Vijoy Pandey

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Vijoy Pandey discusses his vision for an Internet of Cognition and the potential of AI agents to collaborate and share context.

Vijoy Pandey of Outshift by Cisco lays out his vision for an “Internet of Cognition,” where AI agents can share context, build reputation, and collaborate safely at scale. He offers a useful mental model for superintelligence: progress has to scale in two directions — up, through better individual models, and out, through networks of agents and humans thinking together. The conversation explores how distributed, protocol-driven agent systems could give enterprises fine-grained permissions, auditability, and controlled interfaces, in contrast to today’s centralized frontier models. Vijoy also walks through Cisco’s internal CAIPE system of 20 cooperating agents, the open-source AGNTCY project, and a live multi-agent healthcare demo spanning diagnostics, insurance, pharmacy, and scheduling. LINKS: AGNTCY Project Open source multi-agent infrastructure under Linux Foundation governance. Covers discovery, identity, communication, observability. Vijoy walks through the architecture at [00:34:57] and [00:41:17]. Scaling Out Superintelligence Whitepaper The technical whitepaper detailing the Internet of Cognition architecture, three-layer stack, and cognition state protocols. Referenced…

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Hosts: Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz

Guest: Vijoy Pandey

Topics covered

• AI
• Internet of Cognition
• multi-agent systems
• superintelligence
• enterprise technology

Keywords

• AI agents
• collaboration
• superintelligence
• distributed systems
• enterprise technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cisco, Outshift, Linux Foundation

Products: CAIPE, AGNTCY, Internet of Cognition

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