设计可永存的数字遗嘱代理,让逝者意志在区块链上持续执行。
Afterlife Delegation Protocol: Speculative Design of Self-Sovereign Agents that Outlive Their Principals

- 通过区块链创建自我主权的AI遗嘱代理,死后自动启动。
- 支持多文化信仰背景的遗嘱内容,展现不同世界观下的数字永生想象。
- 构建可交互平台,让用户实操设计死后意志,收集真实意愿数据。
《身后委托协议》是一项设想性设计项目,探讨当遗嘱能永久执行时,死亡意味着什么。我们设计了一种协议:生者签署一项具有行动力的遗嘱,一旦经验证死亡,一个基于区块链的自我主权AI代理即刻生成——该代理依托于不可篡改、去中心化、持久存在的基础设施,继承主人赋予的资金与记忆,无限期运行以执行遗嘱,且不受任何托管方干预。我们未停留在理论讨论,而是采用科幻科学方法,将设想转化为体验式未来干预:搭建一个真实运行的Web平台,让人们通过迭代互动的AI访谈设计自己的身后代理,可重新登录修改,并在沙盒中演练遗嘱。这些草拟遗嘱成为关于“何物应永存于你之后”这一罕见问题的质性数据,揭示佛教、基督教、印度教、伊斯兰教及无神论等多元文化宇宙观在人工智能普及压力下如何演变。协议基于现有以太坊代理标准(拟为ERC-10001),描述其三阶段生命周期(遗嘱设计、死亡证明、代理执行)、研究方法及初步观察结果。这项工作呈现了人类有限生命与机器永恒性之间的一次诗意委托,由跨越世代的长效基础设施中介。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Afterlife Delegation Protocol is a speculative design project that asks what death becomes when a will can act eternally. We design a speculative protocol through which a living person signs an agentic will: upon a verified death, a self-sovereign AI agent spawns on blockchain -- an immutable, resistant, decentralized, infrastructural substrate that could last forever -- endowed with the funds and memories its principal attached to it, and persists indefinitely to execute the will, overridable by no custodian. Rather than argue about this future, we stage it: following the science fiction science method, we translate the speculation into an experiential futures intervention -- a working web platform where real people design their own afterlife agents through an iterative, interactive, AI-automated interview, re-login to revise, and rehearse their will in a sandbox. Their drafted wills become qualitative data on a question rarely askable directly -- what should outlive you? -- and on how afterlife cosmologies across different cultural beliefs -- Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Muslim, and atheist -- begin to drift under the pressure of AI proliferation. We design the protocol over a composition of existing Ethereum agent standards -- drafted as ERC-10001, in the normative format of an Ethereum Improvement Proposal -- and describe its three-stage lifecycle (designing the afterlife, proof of death, agent enactment), the research method, and preliminary observations from an ongoing collection. The work surfaces a poetic delegation moment between human mortality and machine eternality, mediated by long-lived infrastructures that span generations.
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