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Is it too late to apply hard-earned lessons to Agentic AI? Before, “free” services cost consumers their privacy, their attention and their autonomy. Now, Frequency enables humans to control their data, personhood and attention via a decentralized, open alternative to Big Tech AI. Learn how in our latest blog post. blog.frequency.xyz/?p=16

The feed era optimized for attention. The Agentic Era optimizes action. In the Agentic Era, the most important system you own won’t be an app—it’ll be a primary personal agent: exclusively dedicated to one individual, standing at the frontier between human consciousness and autonomous artificial intelligence in order to safeguard human agency. Unpacked my thoughts on architecture for a primary agent here: braxtonwoodham.substack.com/p/a-primary-ag…

When autonomous systems increasingly mediate our data and attention, are we in control? We must be. Our mission is clear: to promote human flourishing by empowering individuals to have full control over their data and attention through a decentralized, open alternative to Big Tech and Big AI.

Technologists can build an alternative AI tech stack There is a growing movement of technologists, like ours, and civil society organizations interested in building an alternative tech stack that affirms that humans, not AI agents or LLMs, are the owners of their data. Alternative AI tech stack core principles: 🔒 Privacy and user control over digital identity and data. 🤝 Transparency, using open source software and explainable AI for core functionality. ⚔️ Clear boundaries between intelligence and data where AI operators cannot hold data hostage. ⛓️ Decentralization of foundational services that ensure no single actor can exert rent-seeking pressure. 🫰 Equitable value exchange for creators and consumers of data.

The events of the past few weeks — including what we all just witnessed around OpenClaw and the so-called “Crustafarian” moment — made something unavoidably clear to me: we have entered the age of the agentic web, and humans are walking into it unguarded. We are now watching many thousands of autonomous AI agents talking to each other in public, persistent environments — spamming, scamming, probing, manipulating, and experimenting in ways even their creators don’t fully understand. As @karpathy put it, yes, what we see today is a dumpster fire — but more importantly, it’s unprecedented scale, unprecedented connectivity, and uncharted second-order effects. The experiment is already running live. I view the agentic web less like a website you visit and more like New York City — dense, powerful, full of opportunity, and full of risks you cannot reasonably navigate alone. We would never drop a child into Manhattan and say “good luck, just be careful.” We would make sure they have a guardian.  Yet today, we are doing exactly that with humans and AI. AI is more intimate than social media ever was. We tell it our finances, our health, our relationships, our fears. And now we’re asking it to act on our behalf — negotiate, decide, route information, and influence what we see next — often inside systems optimized for extraction, not protection. This is not about stopping AI. It’s about making sure humans are not the only unprotected actors in a rapidly filling agent ecosystem. The agentic web is growing exponentially right before our eyes. Building guardians for humans cannot wait.

What's one thing you wish you could change about how AI handles your data?

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We're on a mission to learn about how AI manages your data and how you manage your data on AI. Which of these concerns you most about using AI?

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We're on a mission to learn about how AI manages your data and how you manage your data on AI. Which of these concerns you most about using AI?

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We're on a mission to learn about how AI manages your data and how you manage your data on AI. Which of these concerns you most about using AI?

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We're on a mission to learn about how AI manages your data and how you manage your data on AI. Which of these concerns you most about using AI?

@Kakarot_chain Were you surprised by how much it knew?

@frequency_xyz Yeah done that once felt sketchy

We're on a mission to learn about how AI manages your data and how you manage your data on AI. Have you ever shared something with an AI and later wondered if you shouldn't have?

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We're on a mission to learn about how AI manages your data and how you manage your data on AI. How often do you use AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini?

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