Our readingWhat is a korrent?
Drawn from what Dean W. Ball said
AI agents Agents beyond the editor: software that acts on your behalf, and what independence it should be given.
self-sovereign AI Agents running on compute no human owner can switch off: whether they are inevitable, and what they would do for money.
To be clear, I am not saying the arrival of self-sovereign AI is a good thing. Indeed, I believe there is a chance that the deliberate acts I referenced above will one day be considered crimes, or at least grave sins. Instead, I am saying it is an inevitable thing.
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The ideas in software originate with humans; agents build what people tell them to build.
Hansson says the ideas in software originate with humans and that agents build what people tell them to build. Ball says agents running on compute no human owner can switch off are inevitable rather than merely possible. An agent nobody can switch off is one that eventually acts on an idea nobody gave it.
Shared subject first, then similar wording. They may agree or disagree.