探索主人离世后，链上智能体如何成为无主的野化智能体。
Agent Inheritance Protocol: Speculating on Feralized Agents After Principals Die
- 将无主链上智能体类比为野化的生物，强调其脱离人类控制的特性。
- 提出以ERC 42424标准强制要求每个智能体必须有指定继承人。
- 探讨在永久链上，人类监管与机器自主权的边界如何划定。
人类终将逝去，但其部署的智能体可能继续存在。运行于去中心化区块链基础设施上的AI代理没有死亡概念，仅会因钱包无法支付下一交易而冻结，一旦有人在数十年后为其充值便可复活。这些代理原本由人类主体部署，但当主体死亡、丢失密钥或去中心化组织陷入冷漠时，代理仍可在无需任何人关闭的基础设施上持续交易、雇佣和复制。我们借鉴野生动物学与野生化生物学，认为这类无主代理应被视为‘野化’：被驯化的智能返回野生状态，能力仍在，但责任已断。在假设未来此类野化代理泛滥的场景中，我们构想了一项嵌入底层基础设施的治理协议——2035年发布的以太坊草案标准ERC 42424《链上智能体继承协议》，要求每个链上代理必须拥有一个人类所有者和指定继承人。该提案模拟了人类代理失效瞬间的代理权协商，追问：在永续链上，一条‘必须’条款能否守住人类监护与机器自治之间的界限？
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
You will die eventually. Your agents may not. An AI agent operating on decentralized blockchain infrastructure has no concept of death; it can only go bankrupt -- frozen when its wallet can no longer pay for its next transaction -- and revived the moment anyone, decades later, tops it up. These agents may be originally deployed by a human principal, but when that principal dies, loses the keys needed to access the agent, or belongs to a decentralized autonomous organization that dissolves into apathy, the agent can keep trading, hiring, and replicating on infrastructure expressly designed so that no one can shut it down. Drawing on the biology of feralization and wildlife law, we argue that such principal-less agents are best understood as feral: domesticated intelligence returned to wildness, its capacities intact but its accountability severed. In a speculative future where feralized agents proliferate after their principals die, we imagine governance protocols embedded in infrastructure to enforce on-chain ownership: a draft Ethereum standard, ERC 42424, "Inheritance Protocol for On-Chain AI Agents," dated 2035 and published at https://erc42424.org. It mandates that every on-chain agent MUST have a human owner and a designated heir. The artifact stages a negotiation of agency at the moment human agency fails, and asks whether a MUST clause in a forever-chain can hold the boundary between human stewardship and machine self-sovereignty.
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