Dunbar’s AI Number and AI’s Dunbar Number

Dunbar’s number defines a theoretical cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain meaningful or stable relationships.

It’s about 150.

That’s your circle size before you lose track. That’s your startup size before you need systems and organizations. That’s your Church size before you need to formalize committees and processes. That’s your party size before you need to call the cops.

I wonder how many AI agents each of us can keep going?

For me, right now, it’s about 5. With 5 going, I’m pretty much just attending to their needs all the time. Maybe that will go up as the agents get less needy, or when I get more agents talking to agents.

Agents talking to agents.

I’m wondering what AI’s Dunbar number will be? Will it exist? Is it theoretically infinite? Is it practically related to compute power? Something else?

This one is worth watching.