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 * [https://www.dataprotectionreport.com/2025/06/ai-armageddon-series/ The biggest AI privacy problems no one is talking about: Installment 1: The Agent2Agent (“A2A”) Protocol]
+* See wiki [[Model Context Protocol]](MCP) for more on A2A solution
 ==References==
 [[Category: Psychology]]
 [[Category: Philosophy]]

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	A2A is an open protocol that complements Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP), which provides helpful tools and context to agents. Drawing on Google's internal expertise in scaling agentic systems, we designed the A2A protocol to address the challenges we identified in deploying large-scale, multi-agent systems for our customers. A2A empowers developers to build agents capable of connecting with any other agent built using the protocol and offers users the flexibility to combine agents from various providers. Critically, businesses benefit from a standardized method for managing their agents across diverse platforms and cloud environments. We believe this universal interoperability is essential for fully realizing the potential of collaborative AI agents.		A2A is an open protocol that complements Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP), which provides helpful tools and context to agents. Drawing on Google's internal expertise in scaling agentic systems, we designed the A2A protocol to address the challenges we identified in deploying large-scale, multi-agent systems for our customers. A2A empowers developers to build agents capable of connecting with any other agent built using the protocol and offers users the flexibility to combine agents from various providers. Critically, businesses benefit from a standardized method for managing their agents across diverse platforms and cloud environments. We believe this universal interoperability is essential for fully realizing the potential of collaborative AI agents.
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		+	* [https://www.dataprotectionreport.com/2025/06/ai-armageddon-series/ The biggest AI privacy problems no one is talking about: Installment 1: The Agent2Agent (“A2A”) Protocol]

	==References==		==References==

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	==Solutions==		==Solutions==
		+	===Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A)===
		+	https://developers.googleblog.com/en/a2a-a-new-era-of-agent-interoperability/

		+	A2A is an open protocol that complements Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP), which provides helpful tools and context to agents. Drawing on Google's internal expertise in scaling agentic systems, we designed the A2A protocol to address the challenges we identified in deploying large-scale, multi-agent systems for our customers. A2A empowers developers to build agents capable of connecting with any other agent built using the protocol and offers users the flexibility to combine agents from various providers. Critically, businesses benefit from a standardized method for managing their agents across diverse platforms and cloud environments. We believe this universal interoperability is essential for fully realizing the potential of collaborative AI agents.

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 In the mid-1980s Mr. Michael  Goldhaber, a former theoretical physicist, had a revelation. He was obsessed at the time with what he felt was an information glut — that there was simply more access to news, opinion and forms of entertainment than one could handle. His epiphany was this: One of the most finite resources in the world is human attention. To describe its scarcity, he latched onto what was then an obscure term, coined by a psychologist, Herbert A. Simon: “the attention economy.”<ref>Charlie Warzel, ''I Talked to the Cassandra of the Internet Age'' New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/opinion/michael-goldhaber-internet.html</ref><ref>Herbert A. Simon ''DESIGNING ORGANIZATIONS
-FOR AN
+FOR AN INFORMATION-RICH WORLD'' (1971) https://web.archive.org/web/20201006235931/https://digitalcollections.library.cmu.edu/awweb/awarchive?type=file&item=33748</ref>
 Simon is the same person that wrote the first [[Artificial Intelligence]] program with Newell and Shaw.<ref>History of Information, ''Newell, Simon & Shaw Develop the First Artificial Intelligence Program 1955 to 7/1956'' https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=742</ref> That article was reprinted in Computers And Thought the first source material by Feigenbaum and Feldman and used in Marvin Minksky's first college course on [[Artificial Intelligence]] and Heuristic Programming.<ref>Edward a Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman, ''Computers And Thought'' 2012-03-17 (original published in 1963) ISBN 978-1258228224</ref>

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 While the attention economy fuels innovation and connectivity, it also raises concerns about distraction, information overload, and how much control users truly have over their time. The debate continues around how to balance these dynamics for societal well-being.
-In the mid-1980sMr. Michael  Goldhaber, a former theoretical physicist, had a revelation. He was obsessed at the time with what he felt was an information glut — that there was simply more access to news, opinion and forms of entertainment than one could handle. His epiphany was this: One of the most finite resources in the world is human attention. To describe its scarcity, he latched onto what was then an obscure term, coined by a psychologist, Herbert A. Simon: “the attention economy.”<ref>Charlie Warzel, ''I Talked to the Cassandra of the Internet Age'' New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/opinion/michael-goldhaber-internet.html</ref>
+In the mid-1980s Mr. Michael  Goldhaber, a former theoretical physicist, had a revelation. He was obsessed at the time with what he felt was an information glut — that there was simply more access to news, opinion and forms of entertainment than one could handle. His epiphany was this: One of the most finite resources in the world is human attention. To describe its scarcity, he latched onto what was then an obscure term, coined by a psychologist, Herbert A. Simon: “the attention economy.”<ref>Charlie Warzel, ''I Talked to the Cassandra of the Internet Age'' New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/opinion/michael-goldhaber-internet.html</ref><ref>Herbert A. Simon ''DESIGNING ORGANIZATIONS
 Simon is the same person that wrote the first [[Artificial Intelligence]] program with Newell and Shaw.<ref>History of Information, ''Newell, Simon & Shaw Develop the First Artificial Intelligence Program 1955 to 7/1956'' https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=742</ref> That article was reprinted in Computers And Thought the first source material by Feigenbaum and Feldman and used in Marvin Minksky's first college course on [[Artificial Intelligence]] and Heuristic Programming.<ref>Edward a Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman, ''Computers And Thought'' 2012-03-17 (original published in 1963) ISBN 978-1258228224</ref>

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 In the mid-1980sMr. Michael  Goldhaber, a former theoretical physicist, had a revelation. He was obsessed at the time with what he felt was an information glut — that there was simply more access to news, opinion and forms of entertainment than one could handle. His epiphany was this: One of the most finite resources in the world is human attention. To describe its scarcity, he latched onto what was then an obscure term, coined by a psychologist, Herbert A. Simon: “the attention economy.”<ref>Charlie Warzel, ''I Talked to the Cassandra of the Internet Age'' New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/opinion/michael-goldhaber-internet.html</ref>
-Simon is the same person that wrote the first [[Artificial Intelligence]] program with Newell and Shaw.<ref>History of Information, ''Newell, Simon & Shaw Develop the First Artificial Intelligence Program 1955 to 7/1956'' https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=742</ref> That article was reprinted in Computers And Thought the first source material by Feigenbaum and Feldman and used in Marvin Minksky's first college course on [[Artificial Intelligence]] and Heuristic Programming.<ref>Edward a Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman, ''Computers And Thought'' 2012-03-17 ISBN 978-1258228224</ref>
+Simon is the same person that wrote the first [[Artificial Intelligence]] program with Newell and Shaw.<ref>History of Information, ''Newell, Simon & Shaw Develop the First Artificial Intelligence Program 1955 to 7/1956'' https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=742</ref> That article was reprinted in Computers And Thought the first source material by Feigenbaum and Feldman and used in Marvin Minksky's first college course on [[Artificial Intelligence]] and Heuristic Programming.<ref>Edward a Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman, ''Computers And Thought'' 2012-03-17 (original published in 1963) ISBN 978-1258228224</ref>
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	In the mid-1980sMr. Michael Goldhaber, a former theoretical physicist, had a revelation. He was obsessed at the time with what he felt was an information glut — that there was simply more access to news, opinion and forms of entertainment than one could handle. His epiphany was this: One of the most finite resources in the world is human attention. To describe its scarcity, he latched onto what was then an obscure term, coined by a psychologist, Herbert A. Simon: “the attention economy.”<ref>Charlie Warzel, ''I Talked to the Cassandra of the Internet Age'' New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/opinion/michael-goldhaber-internet.html</ref>		In the mid-1980sMr. Michael Goldhaber, a former theoretical physicist, had a revelation. He was obsessed at the time with what he felt was an information glut — that there was simply more access to news, opinion and forms of entertainment than one could handle. His epiphany was this: One of the most finite resources in the world is human attention. To describe its scarcity, he latched onto what was then an obscure term, coined by a psychologist, Herbert A. Simon: “the attention economy.”<ref>Charlie Warzel, ''I Talked to the Cassandra of the Internet Age'' New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/opinion/michael-goldhaber-internet.html</ref>
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		+	Simon is the same person that wrote the first [[Artificial Intelligence]] program with Newell and Shaw.<ref>History of Information, ''Newell, Simon & Shaw Develop the First Artificial Intelligence Program 1955 to 7/1956'' https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=742</ref>

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