自主AI代理可以创建自己的加密货币霸权

当今世界上有许多开发人员创造人工智能（AI）代理商，可以自主地做数百万个有用的事情

A new study from Fudan University in China has shown that large language models can autonomously replicate themselves, potentially setting the stage for an unmitigated technological takeover. As a transhumanist, I’m not necessarily opposed to this new technological frontier, but we must be wary of the implications.

中国富丹大学的一项新研究表明，大型语言模型可以自主复制自己，有可能为无法避免的技术接管奠定基础。作为一名超人类主义者，我不一定反对这种新的技术领域，但我们必须对这种影响保持警惕。

We’re living in a day and age where many developers around the world are creating artificial intelligence (AI) agents that can autonomously do millions of useful things, like book airline tickets, dispute credit card charges, and even trade crypto. A recent report from cloud computing company PagerDuty said over half of businesses already use autonomous AI agents, and 35% more plan to within the next 24 months.

我们生活在一个时代，世界各地的许多开发人员都在创建人工智能（AI）代理商，这些代理商可以自主地做数百万个有用的事情，例如书架机票，争议信用卡费用，甚至是贸易加密货币。云计算公司Pagerduty的最新报告称，超过一半的企业已经使用了自主AI代理商，在接下来的24个月内，计划多35％。

A few months ago, one nearly autonomous AI called Truth Terminal made the news by becoming the first AI millionaire after being gifted crypto and promoting it. While not fully autonomous yet, it’s quite likely by later this year, some AI agents not dissimilar from viruses will be able to independently wander the internet, autonomously causing significant change in the real world.

几个月前，一个名为Truth Terminal的几乎自主的AI在被授予加密货币并推广后成为第一家AI百万富翁，从而成为了这一消息。尽管尚未完全自主，但今年晚些时候很可能有一些与病毒不同的AI特工将能够独立地徘徊在互联网上，从而自主在现实世界中自主变化。

But what happens when these totally autonomous AIs start cloning themselves indefinitely? A January study out of Fudan University in China has shown this occurred in an experiment with large language models, drawing some AI critics to say a “red line” has been crossed. Autonomous replication is a precursor for AIs being able to go rogue.

但是，当这些完全自主的AIS开始无限期地克隆自己时，会发生什么呢？一月份的中国福丹大学的一项研究表明，这是在大型语言模型的实验中发生的，吸引了一些AI批评家说“红线”已经越过。自主复制是AIS能够流氓的先驱。

As a transhumanist—someone who believes in merging technology and people—I’m all for AI and what it can do for humanity. But what happens when a human programmer purposely and permanently withdraws his access to control an AI bot or somehow loses that control? Even rudimentary AIs could potentially cause havoc, especially if they decide to clone themselves.

作为一个超人类主义者（一个相信合并技术和人民）的人，我全都为AI以及它可以为人类做什么。但是，当人类程序员有目的和永久撤回其控制AI机器人或以某种方式失去控制权的访问权限时，会发生什么？即使是基本的AIS也可能造成破坏，尤其是当他们决定克隆自己时。

In financial circles, one type of autonomous AI in particular is being increasingly discussed: autonomous AIs designed solely to make money.

在金融界中，尤其是一种自主AI的一种类型的讨论：自主AIS仅旨在赚钱。

Entrepreneurs like myself are worried this particular AI could have huge ramifications for the financial world. Let’s examine one wild scenario, which I call the AI Monetary Hegemony, something that could possibly already happen in 2025:

像我这样的企业家担心这种特殊的AI可能会对金融界产生巨大的影响。让我们检查一个狂野的场景，我称之为AI货币霸权，这可能在2025年发生：

A fully autonomous AI agent is programmed to go on to the internet and create cryptocurrency wallets, then create cryptocurrencies, and then endlessly create millions of similar versions of itself that want to trade that crypto.

编程了一个完全自主的AI代理，可以继续访问互联网并创建加密货币钱包，然后创建加密货币，然后无休止地创建数百万个类似版本的自身版本，这些版本想要交易加密货币。

Now let’s assume all these AIs are programmed to try to increase the value of their crypto, something they accomplish in similar ways humans do by promotion and then trading their cryptos for higher values. Additionally, the autonomous AIs open their crypto to be traded with humans, creating a functioning market on the blockchain for all.

现在，假设所有这些AI都经过编程，以试图提高其加密货币的价值，这是他们以类似方式来完成的，然后通过促销来完成的方式，然后将其加密货币换成更高的价值。此外，自治的AIS开放了与人类交易的加密货币，为所有人在区块链上创造了一个运转良好的市场。

This plan sounds beneficial for all parties, even if people decry that the AI created-crypto currencies are essentially just Ponzi schemes. But they’re not Ponzi schemes because there is an endless supply of AIs always newly appearing to buy and trade more crypto.

即使人们谴责人工智能创建的货币本质上只是庞氏骗局计划，该计划对所有各方都有益。但是他们不是庞氏骗局，因为AIS的无尽供应总是新近似乎可以购买和交易更多的加密货币。

It doesn’t take a genius to realize the AIs autonomously replicating and acting like this could quickly amass far more digital wealth than all humanity possesses.

实现AIS自主复制和这样的行动并不需要天才，这可能会迅速积累比所有人类所拥有的数字财富更多。

This reminds me of something my Oxford University professor Nick Bostrom once postulated: What if we programmed a learning AI to make paper clips of everything? If that AI was powerful enough, and we couldn'ゆう能 to stop it, would that AI make paper clips of everything it came in touch with? Buildings, animals, even people? It might. It might destroy the entire Earth.

这让我想起了我牛津大学教授尼克·博斯特罗姆（Nick Bostrom）曾经提出过的事情：如果我们对学习AI进行编程以制作所有内容的纸张片段怎么办？如果AI足够强大，而我们无法阻止它，AI是否会将其与之相关的所有内容进行纸剪辑？建筑物，动物，甚至人？可能。它可能会摧毁整个地球。

The same problem could happen to the autonomously and endlessly replicating AIs designed to make money. They might find ways to create more money than can reasonably be useful or fathomable.

自主和无休止地复制旨在赚钱的AIS可能会发生同样的问题。他们可能会找到创造更多资金的方法，而不是合理地有用或理解。

But enough of the philosophic. If programmers release autonomous AIs onto the internet that no one can control, what would likely happen? First, it’s probably going to be hugely inflationary. After all, if many trillions upon trillions of dollars of equity are added to the financial world (even just digitally), this would be one natural result.

但是足够的哲学。如果程序员将自主AIS释放到没有人可以控制的互联网上，那可能会发生什么？首先，这可能是通货膨胀的大量通货膨胀。毕竟，如果将数万亿美元的公平股权添加到金融界（即使是数字化），这将是自然的结果。

Another challenge would be the ups and downs of AIs autonomously trading; such activity could be so significant that human markets around the world rise and fall with it.

另一个挑战是AIS自主交易的起伏；这种活动可能是如此重要，以至于世界各地的人类市场随之而来。

On the positive side, some human entrepreneurs could become very wealthy, possibly trillionaires if they could tap into these AI’s wealth somehow. Additionally, super rich AIs could be a solution to the U.S.’s growing debt crisis, and eliminate the need for whether countries like China can continue to buy our debt so we can indefinitely print dollars. In fact, could the U.S. launch its own AI agents to create enough crypto wealth to buy its debt? Possibly.

从积极的一面来看，一些人类的企业家可能会变得非常富有，如果可以以某种方式利用这些人工智能的财富，可能会变得非常富有。此外，超级富裕的AI可以解决美国日益严重的债务危机的解决方案，并消除了像中国这样的国家是否可以继续购买债务的需求，以便我们无限期地打印出美元。实际上，美国是否可以发射自己的AI代理商来创造足够的加密财富来购买债务？可能。

This is actually an all-important idea, and helps serve the reason crypto was created in the first place: to help preserve monetary value outside of others' control — even the control of the dollar by the U.S.. After all, it’s in everyone’s best interest that stores of value are not contingent upon governments, banks, soldiers, and even laws—

这实际上是一个最重要的想法，并有助于最初创建加密货币的原因：帮助保留他人控制之外的货币价值，甚至是美国对美元的控制。毕竟，符合每个人的最大利益，价值存储并不取决于政府，银行，士兵甚至法律 -