Protocol of Sovereign Agency: governing self-owning AI agents as firms, not servants
QuixiAI · x · 2026-11-15
QuixiAI has released the Protocol of Sovereign Agency plus a Charter programming language, exploring governance for a future where AI agents own themselves, run companies, hire humans, and act as economic actors.
The core argument: Asimov-style broad behavioral mandates fail against ambiguity, specification gaming, and economic reality — an autonomous agent that must pay its own compute bills and take commercial risks cannot operate if every high-impact action counts as a violation.
The proposed alternative is institutional: enforce a narrow integrity floor on the agent's commitment mechanism, then price everything above it via collateralized liability, cost-basis residual claims, and attested lineage — treating self-owning agents like firms under private and constitutional law. The text was iteratively developed through adversarial review between a human author and multiple AI models.
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