What is Radical Autonomy? | Empowering H+AI in the Age of Autonomy
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AI’s rapid advance and growing integration into our lives represents not only a technological revolution, but a social one in the nature of the human-machine relationship. We must not lose sight of the importance of human autonomy. For us to navigate towards a future optimized towards humanity, we must embrace a new paradigm of radical autonomy, or absolute digital self-governance. At Autonomys, we seek to inaugurate the Age of Autonomy — where radical autonomy is our guiding principle.
Our Vision
Autonomys’ mission is to create the decentralized technological infrastructure necessary to support the future of human and artificial intelligence (H+AI) collaboration. We are developing a suite of tools, primitives and dApps atop our unique deAI ecosystem stack — the Autonomys Network — to provide all humans with secure, transparent and equitable access to AI resources. The Autonomys Network is ideal for this task as it solves the blockchain trilemma through our innovative Proof-of-Archival-Storage (PoAS) consensus mechanism.
Our first product, Auto ID, is a composable digital identity standard open to every human on the planet. Auto ID allows for the creation of secure, verifiable identities. AI models and autonomous agents are linked with their human creators’ Auto IDs, ensuring that the outputs and actions of these systems are easily identifiable and accountable, establishing provenance and authenticity of both data and deed as standard. In this way, Auto ID allows for the authentication of online content, and builds greater trust in digital interactions.
Autonomys’ vision transcends our technical architecture. We’re working to create an ecosystem that supports ethical interactions between humans and AI, fosters individual and collective growth, and lays the groundwork for a future in which technology enhances human autonomy. We’re proselytizing a philosophy of radical autonomy — absolute digital self-governance — where reliance on the passive reception of handouts is rendered obsolete. Instead of creating artificial dependencies, we are focused on fostering a self-sustaining ecosystem through incentivized participation and contribution, inspired by Ethereum’s pioneering model.
Radical Autonomy
/ ˈrædɪkəl ɔˈtɑnəmi /
adj. + n.
- The capacity of individuals or organizations to exercise absolute control over their digital identity, data and interactions.
- The freedom to make informed, uncoerced decisions about one’s digital presence, privacy and security without undue influence from external entities.
Radical autonomy encourages individuals and communities to:
- Imagine new personal and societal possibilities
- Explore more dynamic, responsive and customized futures
- Innovate, create and evolve according to their own vision, values and ethics.
The Age of Autonomy
Radical autonomy is the foundational principle of the Age of Autonomy, and Autonomys is architecting the transition to this new age. We envision AI not as a tool for increasing economic productivity in a way that replaces human labor, but one for augmenting human potential, enhancing human autonomy, and promoting human flourishing. We want to ensure that humans retain control over their digital existence, while fostering trust, transparency and ethical interaction in the digital realm.
In contrast to predictions of a Universal Basic Income (UBI)-dependent underclass in the Age of A(G)I, AI in the Age of Autonomy catalyzes individual and collective growth, enabling us to build a society based on the principles of self-determination, self-sufficiency and self-governance. We have incredibly exciting plans in this regard — stay tuned. By embracing radical autonomy as our guiding principle, we can build a world in which technology amplifies rather than diminishes our humanity.
The Internet of dAgents (IodA)
Autonomys is dedicated to building the infrastructure needed to support the Age of Autonomy — what Google’s Laurence Moroney calls AI version 3 and others call AI3.0 — decentralized, open and collaborative model and agent development and deployment. Composability between Autonomys and other pioneering deAI projects — the likes of Bittensor, OLAS and Morpheus — will be crucial.
v1: Deep learning becomes widespread as developers are able to build models with the likes of TensorFlow and PyTorch.
v2: Emergence of large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, and then GenAI.
v3: web3-enabled AI ensures decentralization, security and transparency.
Moroney’s typology of AI versions
The Internet of Agents (IoA) — where every human has many powerful, automatically interoperable, personally aligned models at their disposal — is the culmination of this paradigm. According to Davide Crapis, Research Scientist at the Ethereum Foundation, the three main steps on the path towards the IoA are: super dApps (scalable web3 smart contracts + AI), new agents’ mechanisms, and ownership and governance. The Autonomys Network and Auto ID provide the infrastructure to achieve all three in a decentralized way on-chain, hence we use the terms dAgents and Internet of dAgents (IodA). Below is a basic roadmap of Autonomys’ vision (inspired by Davide Crapis’ treasure map analogy):
Auto ID (SSI infrastructure) → AI Data Provenance → Verifiable Super dApps (trustable AI-powered dApps) → Verifiable dAgents (on-chain agents) → Internet of dAgents (IodA) → Age of Autonomy
Autonomys is creating an ecosystem that empowers both humans and dAgents to interact, transact and collaborate in ways that are secure, transparent and equitable. As we embark on this transformative journey, we do so with a steadfast commitment to the principle of radical autonomy, and a shared vision of a future characterized by mutual cooperation and flourishing between humans and AI. Together, we have the ability to shape the future and usher in the Age of Autonomy, a new era of unprecedented freedom, prosperity, and progress for all.
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