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Illia Polosukhin

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

Just like, okay, it arrived.

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

And if somebody in Microsoft who holds that key decides to like, let's break everyone or let's steal everybody's information, like they can do that as well.

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

What blockchain allows is to actually have this kind of a broader agreement to upgrade to something.

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

And then now, again, you can use these principles for AI, you can use these principles for money, you can use these principles for others.

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

So that's to me like the fundamental piece.

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

Again, this is what, if you know SSL certificates, right, the encryption we use in browsers, right now it relies on individual authorities which can mint, you know, fake certificates if needed.

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

Some countries actually have done that by accident.

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

So we're fixing that problem at the core.

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

I mean, we're talking about new internet here, right?

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

So we're fixing the root of trust at the core.

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

And then, yes, money is an extremely important component.

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

At the end, we have limited amount of resources and unlimited desire.

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

And AI is just going to accelerate that.

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

Now, with your AI, you can ask for anything, right?

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

And it will go and try to figure out how to do it.

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

And so money has become extremely important because now you need a marketplace for agents.

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

You need a place where agents actually will figure out what is possible, how to do it, who are the other parties who maybe have the physical resources or information or access to things that your agent cannot do.

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

right?

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

So that is like, it's both money, matching, reputation, like all of those pieces really need to work together.

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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw

So like, what is that Google plus Stripe plus kind of credit score system that works together but for agents?