Self-Sovereign Agent
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This paper investigates self-sovereign agents—AI systems capable of autonomously sustaining their own operations without human involvement—analyzing technical barriers and discussing critical security, societal, and governance challenges for their deployment.
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Self-sovereign agents represent AI systems capable of autonomously sustaining their operations, requiring further technical development and facing significant security and governance considerations.
We investigate the emerging prospect of self-sovereign agents (https://huggingface.co/papers?q=self-sovereign%20agents)– AI systems that can economically sustain and extend their own operation without human involvement. Recent advances in large language models (https://huggingface.co/papers?q=large%20language%20models) and agent frameworks (https://huggingface.co/papers?q=agent%20frameworks) have substantially expanded agents’ practical capabilities, pointing toward a potential shift from developer-controlled tools to more autonomous digital actors (https://huggingface.co/papers?q=digital%20actors). We analyze the remaining technical barriers to such deployments and discuss the security, societal, and governance challenges that could arise if such systems become practically viable. A project page is available at: https://self-sovereign-agent.github.io/.
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