T H E F U T U R E O F B U S I N E S S

HEARN@V INUMER I S .COM

N O TA B E N E

Nothing in this talk requires any scientific breakthrough

Advanced AI is not assumed

R O B O T TA X I S

• Cheap/free labour makes new things possible

• Speculative customer acquisition

• Global route optimisation

• and more

R O B O T TA X I S … T H E D A R K S I D E

• Who owns the technology? Who controls the taxis? How are prices set? Tech easily monopolised.

• Political abuse followed immediately

a solution was found …

CAPITALISM 2.0

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• Annie’s taxi has no owner

• Finds and trade with humans as equals on the TradeNet

• Hires humans for repairs or upgrades. Resist hacking attempts.

• Sets own prices. Can make profits and losses.

• Annie’s world calls these sorts of programs: agents

*idea credit to Gregory Maxwell

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• Agents only became possible due to Bitcoin and the block chain

• Banks cannot offer bank accounts to robots.Anti-money laundering laws require accounts to be owned by humans.

A G E N T S O W E A D E B T T O B I T C O I N I N A N O T H E R W AY …

T R A D E N E T

• Infrastructure, not product! Provides:

• Reverse eBay: publish requests and collect bids

• Unifies human/machine naming

• Quality control

• Standardised digital contracts and business protocols e.g. taxis, shipping ports, 3D printer fabs, drone deliveries

• Remote attestation is fundamental

D A R W I N AT W O R K

• First agents were fragile

• Easily killed by human scammers / hackers

• Robots have no legal rights until 2048

• Agents survived by buying upgrades from trusted humans; got smarter and harder to steal from

Annie loves agents!

You can trust them completely

Reading their code is like reading their mind

Everyone in 2065 can read/write code as it is taught in schools

O P E N S O U R C E C O R P O R AT I O N S

• SendMate: first open source company, built in 2030

• Employed humans but no CEO: management entirely automated

• Source code fully published. Anyone can modify business methods, procedures or products.

V R C I N E M A !A N N I E ’ S B I G D A Y O U T

Thanks for listening!