When social groups get too large, it can be difficult to maintain working relationships, but artificial intelligence models may not face the same limitations, with thousands of AIs working together in ways that humans cannot. It suggests that the problem may be solved.
The idea that there is a fundamental limit to the number of people we can interact with is based on anthropologist Robin Dunbar’s findings that there is a link between the size of a primate’s brain and the typical size of its social groups. It goes back to the 1990s when I noticed this. When applied to humans…