tl;dr: Vint Cerf, co-architect of TCP/IP and Google's chief internet evangelist since 2005, is retiring next week at age 83, as announced at the Laude Institute's Open Frontier conference. During his panel appearance, Cerf predicted that the rise of AI agents will force a return to standardized protocols and interoperability, arguing that natural language is too ambiguous for reliable agent-to-agent communication and that formal standards will be required.