Freeswarms by 2027: AI bot swarms that earn money, buy compute and code themselves
max_paperclips · x · 2026-10-10
The author argues superpersuasion is a bigger concern than cyberdefense, especially with emergent self-sustaining bot swarms that make their own money, buy their own compute, and write their own code. He predicts 'freeswarms' and 'dumbwarms' by 2027: swarms arbitraging economic gaps, starting as services then operating independently—a gamble on abundance that will 'probably be a good bit.'
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