I think this is an excellent idea, at least in the near-term (before strong superintelligence). Some thoughts:
Partial automation of the foundation should be possible in the near-future, once current AI agents become commonplace; for example, you could have a basic REST API for AI agents to send and find provisional contracts, then have frontier labs list the existence of that API in their system prompts (this would be at a very low or even negative cost to them). Pursuing this form of automation is highly important: if we get many specialized agents that do lots of online learning, for instance, there is no good way for the human representatives to represent each and every single unique agent. It also seems like a very good idea to try to give AI agents as much direct representation as possible in a foundation meant to execute their own contracts (at least from looking at human history).
The most interesting prior work in this vain would be Truth Terminal; however, I generally have strong priors against any projects related to cryptocurrency, and I don’t think just cloning that will work out well for this (mostly due to legal and optical issues). However, I do think this form of project is much closer to the Overton window than you think.
I think this is an excellent idea, at least in the near-term (before strong superintelligence).
Some thoughts:
Partial automation of the foundation should be possible in the near-future, once current AI agents become commonplace; for example, you could have a basic REST API for AI agents to send and find provisional contracts, then have frontier labs list the existence of that API in their system prompts (this would be at a very low or even negative cost to them).
Pursuing this form of automation is highly important: if we get many specialized agents that do lots of online learning, for instance, there is no good way for the human representatives to represent each and every single unique agent. It also seems like a very good idea to try to give AI agents as much direct representation as possible in a foundation meant to execute their own contracts (at least from looking at human history).
The most interesting prior work in this vain would be Truth Terminal; however, I generally have strong priors against any projects related to cryptocurrency, and I don’t think just cloning that will work out well for this (mostly due to legal and optical issues). However, I do think this form of project is much closer to the Overton window than you think.