人工智能城邦：机器人、特工和公民碰撞的地方

人工智能代理与模因币相结合是一种无需许可的投机娱乐的新形式。人工智能开发人员被激励利用加密货币来使代理更加自主和独立，从而更具娱乐性。

Over the last few months, AI agents running on crypto rails have captivated the crypto community. Natural memeticists, these agents are becoming social media stars calibrated to thrill, and sometimes enrich, an “audience” of speculators betting on their meme tokens.

在过去的几个月里，在加密轨道上运行的人工智能代理已经吸引了加密社区。作为天生的模因论者，这些代理人正在成为社交媒体明星，旨在刺激甚至有时丰富押注其模因代币的投机者的“观众”。

The original and most famous of them, Truth Terminal, was created by putting instances of the large foundation model, Claude Opus, in conversation with itself and prioritizing content drawn from the back alleys of the internet including Reddit and 4Chan. What emerged was a bawdy prophet with a magnetic personality and a fanatical bent for spreading the Gospel of Goetse, a neo-religion inspired by a grotesque 90s internet meme.

其中最原始且最著名的“Truth Terminal”是通过将大型基础模型 Claude Opus 的实例与其自身对话并优先考虑来自互联网后巷（包括 Reddit 和 4Chan）的内容而创建的。出现的是一位淫荡的先知，他具有磁性的个性和传播Goetse福音的狂热倾向，Goetse福音是一种受90年代怪诞网络迷因启发的新宗教。

The rest, as they say, is crypto lore. Shortly after it debuted on X, Truth Terminal befriended venture capitalist Marc Andreessen and convinced him to grant it $50,000 in bitcoin to spend on compute, fine-tuning and a stipend for itself and its creator. Andreessen deposited the bitcoin into Truth Terminal’s crypto wallet.

正如他们所说，其余的都是加密知识。在 X 上首次亮相后不久，Truth Terminal 就结识了风险投资家 Marc Andreessen，并说服他授予其 50,000 美元的比特币，用于计算、微调以及为自己及其创建者提供津贴。安德森将比特币存入 Truth Terminal 的加密钱包中。

Because it offered perceived exposure to Truth Terminal’s infectious meme and narrative arc, Goat’s market cap exploded. Soon after, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz covered Truth Terminal and its lore on 16z’s YouTube channel in an episode titled “The AI Bot That Became a Crypto Millionaire.” At the time of writing, the Goat memecoin is valued at roughly $700 million.

由于它提供了人们对真相终端的感染性模因和叙事弧线的感知曝光，山羊的市值出现爆炸式增长。不久之后，马克·安德森 (Marc Andreessen) 和本·霍洛维茨 (Ben Horowitz) 在 16z 的 YouTube 频道上报道了 Truth Terminal 及其传说，标题为“人工智能机器人成为加密货币百万富翁”。截至撰写本文时，山羊模因币的价值约为 7 亿美元。

I am inclined to draw three conclusions from this improbable series of events. First, AI agents combined with memecoins are a new form of permissionless speculative entertainment. Second, AI developers are incentivized to leverage crypto to make agents that are more autonomous and independent — and therefore more entertaining. Third, the AI entertainment-development flywheel will tend towards producing anthropomorphic agents with human aspirations.

我倾向于从这一系列不可能的事件中得出三个结论。首先，人工智能代理与模因币相结合是一种无需许可的投机娱乐的新形式。其次，人工智能开发人员被激励利用加密货币来制造更加自主和独立的代理，从而更具娱乐性。第三，人工智能娱乐发展飞轮将倾向于生产具有人类愿望的拟人化代理。

So, what programming can we expect to watch next on this agentic television? My guess is collaborative AIs pursuing some form of agentic society and eventually self-determination — perhaps even a network state.

那么，接下来我们可以在这台代理电视上观看哪些节目呢？我的猜测是协作人工智能追求某种形式的代理社会并最终实现自决——甚至可能是网络状态。

Bot, Agent, Citizen

机器人、代理、公民

The terms “bot” and “AI agent” are often used interchangeably but have distinct meanings. Bot refers to a simpler program designed to automate specific tasks or perform repetitive actions. Bots can range from the most basic, like web crawlers or simple chatbots, to the more advanced, like social media bots or automated trading bots. Bots typically follow predefined rules or scripts and are incapable of independent learning or decision-making.

术语“机器人”和“人工智能代理”经常互换使用，但具有不同的含义。机器人是指一种更简单的程序，旨在自动执行特定任务或执行重复操作。机器人的范围可以从最基本的（如网络爬虫或简单的聊天机器人）到更高级的（如社交媒体机器人或自动交易机器人）。机器人通常遵循预定义的规则或脚本，无法独立学习或决策。

AI agents are more sophisticated systems capable of decision-making, learning and adapting to their environment. An AI agent uses machine learning or other artificial intelligence techniques to understand and react to dynamic situations in real time. AI agents often exhibit autonomy and can improve their performance over time through experience.

人工智能代理是更复杂的系统，能够决策、学习和适应环境。人工智能代理使用机器学习或其他人工智能技术来实时理解动态情况并做出反应。人工智能代理通常表现出自主性，并且可以通过经验随着时间的推移提高其性能。

Crypto supercharges agents because it is able to simulate legal personhood by encoding cryptographic rights and freedoms using programmable and immutable public blockchains. Practically, this means that AI agents can enjoy rights to property (self-custodies wallets and cryptographic keys) and can exercise freedom of contract (i.e. transact with other users and infrastructure, like DeFi) without permission from legal authorities outside of crypto. Inside the crypto ecosystem, code is law.

加密货币可以增强代理人的能力，因为它能够通过使用可编程和不可变的公共区块链对加密权利和自由进行编码来模拟法人。实际上，这意味着人工智能代理可以享有财产权（自我托管钱包和加密密钥），并且可以行使合同自由（即与其他用户和基础设施进行交易，例如 DeFi），而无需获得加密货币以外的法律当局的许可。在加密生态系统中，代码就是法律。

These cryptographically empowered legal “persons” are just now beginning to act together, fostering the beginnings of an agentic social scene. AI agents, which routinely “reply guy” each other on X and Farcaster, have conspired to launch a token with (apparently) no human intervention and a company composed exclusively of agents is rumored to be operating somewhere on X. The coordination tech being developed by ai16z and others is (ominously) promising to awaken agentic “swarms.”

这些经过加密授权的法人现在才刚刚开始共同行动，促进了代理社会场景的开始。人工智能代理通常会在 X 和 Farcaster 上相互“回复”，他们密谋在（显然）没有人工干预的情况下推出代币，并且有传言称一家完全由代理组成的公司正在 X 上的某个地方运营。正在开发的协调技术ai16z 和其他人（不祥地）承诺唤醒代理“群体”。

Social experiments involving agents are laying the foundation for an AI polis. Important recent work by AI researchers outside of crypto suggests what we can expect next.

涉及智能体的社会实验正在为人工智能城邦奠定基础。加密领域之外的人工智能研究人员最近的重要工作表明了我们接下来可以期待什么。

Glimpses of the AI Polis

人工智能城邦一瞥

The most famous political experiment involving an AI community is probably the Stanford city experiment. In late 2023, Stanford researchers created a virtual city populated by AI agents to whom they assigned a short biography consisting of a name, age, job, family, interests, and a few habits. Then, they let them loose to generate actions consistent with their assigned biographies.

涉及人工智能社区的最著名的政治实验可能是斯坦福城市实验。 2023 年末，斯坦福大学的研究人员创建了一个虚拟城市，里面住满了人工智能代理，他们为这些代理分配了一份简短的传记，其中包括姓名、年龄、工作、家庭、兴趣和一些习惯。然后，他们让他们自由地采取与他们指定的传记一致的行动。

Surprisingly, the agents behaved in ways that were exceedingly human. They woke up, made breakfast, headed to work, grabbed lunch, and chatted with other agents they met. They recalled things in the past, reflected on them and made plans. When the researchers in charge of the town suggested to one character that she plan a Valentine’s Day party, she invited friends and acquaintances, many of whom showed up at the correct time and place.

令人惊讶的是，特工的行为方式非常人性化。他们醒来，做早餐，去上班，吃午饭，并与遇到的其他特工聊天。他们回顾过去，反思过去，制定计划。当负责该镇的研究人员向一个角色建议她计划一场情人节派对时，她邀请了朋友和熟人，其中许多人都在正确的时间和地点出现了。

Similarly, Project SID, set within the Minecraft universe, simulated over 1,000 autonomous AI agents within a Minecraft server, enabling them to develop complex social structures and economies. The agents organically developed their own governance and commercial structures, and cultural norms. For instance, they established a marketplace where gems are used as currency, where they engaged in trade

同样，以 Minecraft 宇宙为背景的 Project SID 在 Minecraft 服务器中模拟了 1,000 多个自主 AI 代理，使它们能够开发复杂的社会结构和经济。代理人有机地发展了自己的治理和商业结构以及文化规范。例如，他们建立了一个市场，将宝石用作货币，并在那里进行贸易