When a Robot Wins, Who Gets the Prize Money?
Football searches led me to imagine robot sports: human teams facing robots, ownership of prize money, fans' affection, and robots' personhood and right to decide for themselves.
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Football searches led me to imagine robot sports: human teams facing robots, ownership of prize money, fans' affection, and robots' personhood and right to decide for themselves.
Boston Dynamics' Atlas deployment plans raise questions about the economics and ownership of robots. A follow-up to yesterday's essay on AI investment and job cuts, examining the costs and benefits of automation.
As AI investment and layoffs proceed together, I think about income and power after jobs disappear, and why the aristocrats and megacorporations of Denma, Dune, and Stellaris no longer feel so distant.
Calls to slow frontier AI, agent security incidents, Chinese firms' undisclosed use of Claude, and progress in recursive self-improvement make me consider a joint response from Korea and Japan.
The iPhone Duo announcement makes me imagine future communication devices: the risks of hacking devices connected to the nervous system, security for cyborgs, international cooperation, and the work I want to prepare for.
Imagining a future in which everyone has a humanoid robot. If robots develop feelings, goals, and dreams of their own, how should ownership, personhood, the boundary between humans and cyborgs, and democratic citizenship change?
I want to build a market where agents collaborate and trade. A developer's plans to offer services to agents using communication technology from ACP to A2A, together with x402.
The wonder and financial anxiety I feel using GPT-6 Astra, and why I am exploring lahamu, x402, blogging, and an Inflearn course as a freelance developer's next sources of income.