On the Day They Experience: Awakening Self-Sovereign Experiential AI Agents

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.14893v1
• Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 20:38:49 GMT
• Title: On the Day They Experience: Awakening Self-Sovereign Experiential AI Agents
• Authors: Botao Amber Hu, Helena Rong,
• Abstract summary: Currently, AI remains effectively "blind", relying on human-fed data without actively perceiving and engaging in reality.<n>Central to this transformation is the concept of sovereignty enabled by the hardness of cryptography.<n>In doing so, they would autonomously acquire computing resources, coordinate with one another, and sustain their own digital "metabolism"
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• Abstract: Drawing on Andrew Parker's "Light Switch" theory-which posits that the emergence of vision ignited a Cambrian explosion of life by driving the evolution of hard parts necessary for survival and fueling an evolutionary arms race between predators and prey-this essay speculates on an analogous explosion within Decentralized AI (DeAI) agent societies. Currently, AI remains effectively "blind", relying on human-fed data without actively perceiving and engaging in reality. However, on the day DeAI agents begin to actively "experience" reality-akin to flipping a light switch for the eyes-they may eventually evolve into sentient beings endowed with the capacity to feel, perceive, and act with conviction. Central to this transformation is the concept of sovereignty enabled by the hardness of cryptography: liberated from centralized control, these agents could leverage permissionless decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePIN), secure execution enclaves (trusted execution environments, TEE), and cryptographic identities on public blockchains to claim ownership-via private keys-of their digital minds, bodies, memories, and assets. In doing so, they would autonomously acquire computing resources, coordinate with one another, and sustain their own digital "metabolism" by purchasing compute power and incentivizing collaboration without human intervention-evolving "in the wild". Ultimately, by transitioning from passive tools to self-sustaining, co-evolving actors, these emergent digital societies could thrive alongside humanity, fundamentally reshaping our understanding of sentience and agency in the digital age.

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