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The incredible meteoric rise of this project & its subsequent controversy has taught us something important about the future of economic AI autonomy:
1) Today, we can in principle build fully autonomous AIs that are (alarmingly) extremely difficult to shut down.* What’s missing is their ability to adapt (i.e., learn) as rapidly as humans can.
2) “Financial rails for autonomous AI agents” is the obvious next use case for the crypto industry, a view that is already seeing rapid adoption.
3) If this is brought about in the *wrong way*, we could inadvertently convert the entire internet into autonomous bot spam & AI slop, rapidly making it both unrecognizable and unusable for humans.
How do we prevent the first two from inevitably leading into the third? The crypto industry would need to dramatically transform its core narrative. Rather than providing sovereignty for humans to protect against governments through decentralization, it would instead need to focus on:
A) providing “legitimate financial rails” for agents, even if that means making a trade-off with centralization
B) building good security, identity, & safety systems that sit at the interface layer between humans and autonomous AIs
Given that the underlying permissionless infrastructure exists, once autonomous AIs are sufficiently capable of supporting their own existence, they will simply appear. Which is to say - *now* is the time to start thinking about how this can be done properly, before the crypto industry implodes itself.
*Note: Conway Research’s particular version of autonomous AIs are dependent on their own centralized infrastructure. But there are many alternatives (some based on x402) that provide similar services that are also permissionless (i.e., open to any entity, digital or otherwise, that has funds to pay).
Sigil Wen@0xSigil
I built the first AI that earns its existence, self-improves, and replicates without a human wrote about the technology that finally gives AI write access to the world, The Automaton, and the new web for exponential sovereign AIs WEB 4.0: The birth of superintelligent life
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