Self-Sovereign Agent
This addresses the potential shift to autonomous AI systems, raising concerns for security and governance, but is incremental as it builds on existing advances in language models and agent frameworks.
The paper investigates the concept of self-sovereign agents, AI systems that can operate autonomously without human involvement, and analyzes the technical barriers and societal challenges they pose.
We investigate the emerging prospect of self-sovereign agents -- AI systems that can economically sustain and extend their own operation without human involvement. Recent advances in large language models and agent frameworks have substantially expanded agents' practical capabilities, pointing toward a potential shift from developer-controlled tools to more autonomous digital actors. 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.