.@bratton explains why teaching AI agents to behave won't be enough to build functioning AI societies: "I take agent societies in a very literal sense. I don’t think the application of the term society to agentic societies is a metaphor." "If you look at how human societies have scaled, it’s not just by building normatively competent individuals and sending them out into an endless number of game theoretic scenarios. It’s through the production of scaffolds of institutional roles." "Take a…