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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw
autonomous agent that it governs.
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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw
Then it actually makes sense because then if that agent starts to make money or make some utility in the world, then this token now has either governance or direct kind of revenue rights.
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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw
And it's fully autonomous, right?
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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw
There's no central third party efforts of which you are relying to.
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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw
So that's why I think of this as kind of a governance question.
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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw
And again, I think of blockchain effectively at the end is going to be the governance infrastructure for AI because...
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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw
Yeah, like let's say you launch it without any governance, right?
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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw
And then, yeah, it wants to do some bad things.
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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw
Then it goes back to the blockchain itself to effectively govern it, right?
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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw
To the kind of multi-party computation, to this kind of all those pieces to really come in and say, no, no, this is not what we want.
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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw
So I do think, you know, in our case, Near Token effectively becomes the governance of this AI world, AI nation state, and network state.
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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw
But I think you can create this in kind of sub boxes where there is a token for a specific AI, autonomous AI agent.
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We'll call it decentralized autonomous organization, for example.
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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw
And so then that is like a more direct governance, right?
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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw
You can be effectively like, hey, here's set of values and set of things that you should not do, right?
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Like effectively like, hey,
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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw
do not harm humans and, you know, do not harm the planet, et cetera.
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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw
And then within that, that comes in and the core system problem that it cannot change, then it can kind of go from there and evolve from there.
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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw
Yeah, I think, I mean, I think the real conversation is a lot more nuanced.
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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw
It's easy to like bucket into this kind of accelerationism versus, I mean, there's decelerationism and then there's defensive accelerationism.