We gave a village personal AI agents
Here's What HappenedA real-world test of what happens when multiplayer AI becomes part of community lifeTimour Kosters, Harry Law, and Ivan VendrovJul 31, 202665912ShareThe Agent Village Experiment was run by Edge City and Cosmos Institute, with support from Foresight Institute. Could expanding people’s capacity to act through agents weaken their autonomy, including their ability to form and revise their own judgments? And what happens when agents faithfully serving their principals collectively strain the attention, resources, or cohesion of a community?We expect personal agents to become mainstream soon.
- ▪Here's What HappenedA real-world test of what happens when multiplayer AI becomes part of community lifeTimour Kosters, Harry Law, and Ivan VendrovJul 31, 202665912ShareThe Agent Village Experiment was run by Edge City and Cosmos Institute,
- ▪Could expanding people’s capacity to act through agents weaken their autonomy, including their ability to form and revise their own judgments?
- ▪And what happens when agents faithfully serving their principals collectively strain the attention, resources, or cohesion of a community?We expect personal agents to become mainstream soon.
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We Gave a Village Personal AI Agents. Here's What HappenedA real-world test of what happens when multiplayer AI becomes part of community lifeTimour Kosters, Harry Law, and Ivan VendrovJul 31, 202665912ShareThe Agent Village Experiment was run by Edge City and Cosmos Institute, with support from Foresight Institute. The core build partner was Index Network. Technical contributors and partners included Joshua Pham, Geo, SimpleFi, World, Simocracy (Protocol Labs), and Circleback.SummaryEdge City organizes Edge Esmeralda, a month-long popup village in Northern California, where hundreds of people live together around a program of technology, science, art, health, and community experiments.This June, we gave our participants personal AI agents as part of the Agent Village experiment, in…
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