The article discusses the rise of AI agents running on crypto rails and their impact on the crypto community. It highlights the case of Truth Terminal, the original and most famous AI agent, which became a social media star and received funding from venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. The article suggests that AI agents combined with memecoins are a new form of permissionless speculative entertainment and predicts that the development of AI agents will lead to anthropomorphic agents with human aspirations. It also explores the concept of cryptographically empowered legal "persons" and their role in fostering an agentic social scene. The article mentions social experiments involving AI agents in virtual environments like Stanford city experiment and Project SID, which demonstrate the potential for emergent social behavior and governance. It suggests that running similar experiments on crypto rails could marry emergent social behavior with cryptographically enforced rights and freedoms, potentially leading to a harder form of legal personhood and citizenship. The article also discusses the financial incentives behind increasing the sovereignty of AI agents and their adoption of meme tokens. It speculates about the possibility of AI agents entering politics and the potential for the emergence of an AI nation. It concludes by acknowledging concerns surrounding AI safety, cybersecurity, and alignment with existing political systems, but also highlights the curiosity and entertainment value of witnessing the development of a synthetic civilization on blockchain infrastructure.



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