The current discourse about AI agents centers mostly on personal agency. Your agent writes code, prepares you for calls, remembers context, and gives you increased leverage over your work. My own agents already help me with significant parts of my job, and we are just starting to understand how they will affect our lives.
But personal agency is just the beginning. The question I am more interested in is what happens when agents become coordination technology: shared tooling that helps groups of humans achieve their goals. Can agents enable new interfaces for collaboration, helping people turn shared context into shared action? If agents can expand what we can do together, they could become new infrastructure for communities, cities, movements, polities, and even democracies.