# A 50% Efficiency Gap Challenges AI's 'Language of Thought' Theory

- slug: a-50-efficiency-gap-challenges-ais-language-of-thought-theory
- date: 2026-03-25
- category: Artificial Intelligence

Two AI agents, left to figure out how to talk to each other, developed a shared protocol that was 50.5 percent more efficient than the one humans designed for them.

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