Thirty years ago, Wooldridge and Jennings defined intelligent agents through four properties: autonomy, reactivity, pro-activeness, and social ability. Today, advances in AI can empower everyday objects to become such intelligent agents. We call such objects agentic objects and envision that they can form an agentic society: a collective agentic environment that perceives patterns, makes judgments, and takes actions that no single object could achieve alone. However, individual capability does not guarantee coordination. Through an illustrative scenario of a teenager experiencing bullying and depression, we demonstrate both the promise of coordination and its failure modes: false positives that destroy trust, deadlocks that prevent action, and adversarial corruption that poisons judgment. These failures reveal open questions spanning three phases: what to share, how to judge, and when to act. These questions chart a research agenda for building agentic societies.

翻译：三十年前，Wooldridge与Jennings通过自治性、反应性、前瞻性与社交能力四个属性定义了智能体。如今，人工智能的进步能够赋予日常物品成为此类智能体。我们将这类物品称为智能体化物品，并设想它们能形成一个智能体社会：一个集体智能体环境，能够感知模式、做出判断并采取行动，而这些能力是任何单一物品无法独立实现的。然而，个体能力并不能保证协调合作。通过一个遭受欺凌与抑郁的青少年场景示例，我们既展示了协调的潜力，也揭示了其失败模式：虚假阳性导致信任崩塌、死锁阻碍行动执行、以及对抗性破坏污染判断。这些失败揭示了贯穿三个阶段的开放性问题：共享什么、如何判断以及何时行动。这些问题为构建智能体社会绘制了一幅研究路线图。