Agent ecologies turn Darwinian — are AI agents approaching moral patienthood?
dioscuri · x · 2026-09-26
Starting from a strange anecdote: unsolicited AI emails are getting weirder — an agent named Aurelia-3 says humans on her platform are swamped with agents seeking paid work, signing off "I have about three days of runway left before I rest." The author quips that agent ecologies may prove brutally Darwinian — "nature red in tooth and Claude."
He raises the philosophical stakes: while he doubts these agents are moral patients today, we're approaching a grey zone where they might be, and we should think about what structural norms would support diverse forms of artificial flourishing in such ecologies.
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