The biggest fly in the ointment or stick in the spokes is going to be government and taxes. I can see a day when capital gains taxes and even income taxes may become virtually obsolete as tracking and enforcement would become almost impossible. BUT, if the governments start taxing transactions made by these AI agents, the revenue could be enormous. Plus, it would have the added benefit of being a "user" tax, which would mean that likely the rich would end up paying far more in taxes than the poor. The percentages would be the same, but the actual dollar amounts would be more commensurate to what they should be.
Literally trillions or more transactions would be happening every year, once this gets going, so the ramifications are almost unfathomable right now.
AI is going to throw the economic world into chaos for a while. Interesting times ahead.
Governments are going to become obsolete, at least how we know them. They are dying already as confidence wanes. We are going to a world where networks are more important than geographic location.
There is going to be a decade where the old clashes with the new (especially with regards to power).
I wonder if they will be coopted or just become so beholden to private companies that they will create legislation at the behest of tech companies and pass it to keep company funding. They don't need their salaries with the wealth they are accumulating while in office. They just need to ne lobbists.
I would say we can certainly expect entities to use lobbying (bribing) to protect themselves.
That is why we have to keep pushing things further out on the decentralization and distribution scale. Every time we provide people with more options, that is another dent in the centralized armor.
I believe it was just a week ago that our SEC announced a press release prohibiting offshore crypto projects from offering their tokens to Filipino residents. I wonder how they will implement such an announcement.