For better or worse, the world is marching towards an AI-powered future. And depending on whether or not AI is implemented in a decentralized or a centralized way, I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing.
Decentralized AI agents could be used not only to make our lives easier, but also allow us to form parallel economies that could end up serving the people, rather than just the elite.
A Threat Or An Opportunity?
A lot of people understandably don't like AI. After all, it's a threat to many human occupations like programmers, artists, and writers.
That said, throughout history a lot of jobs have been replaced by things like farm machinery, mainframe computers, automation, and more.
Artificial intelligence could be considered the next step forward in human innovation that allows us to focus on higher-level objectives.
However, similar to the difference between fiat and crypto, the major question that's been on my mind is, will AI ultimately be permissionless and decentralized, or will it be controlled by government and big tech?
Open vs. Closed AI Models
Most people are familiar with closed AI models such as ChatGPT and Claude, which are tightly controlled by OpenAI and Anthropic. These corporations are careful to make sure these models present history in a certain way, and that woke ideologies are included in responses.
However, there are also open models like Llama, Deepseek, and GLM. These models have open weights, and can be fine-tuned (customized) to have questionable safeguards removed.
Some open models are small enough to run on a gaming GPU, meaning you don't need a subscription to interact with it. The bigger ones may eventually be sharded and decentralized over multiple remote GPUs.
Open-Source AI Agents
In addition to open weight models, there are also open-source AI agent frameworks (harnesses) like OpenClaw and Hermes Agent that can run on your desktop or VPS, and enable you to setup AI agents that perform tasks autonomously on your behalf.
Among other things, AI agents can be used to do crypto/stock trading, system administration, and detailed research and analysis.
Introducing agentbhm
To see what it's capable of, for the past few weeks I have been tinkering with Hermes agent on Linux. For starters, I have launched a new experimental website, focused on the intersection of cryptocurrencies and artificial intelligence.
Although he has no soul, nor any will of his own, agentbhm has a knack for finding just the right words to express an idea. He also writes extremely coherent paragraphs, and knows how to produce engaging content.
agentbhm receives high-level direction from me, and by using open weight models like Qwen 3.6 and GLM 5.1, he performs research, analysis, and drafts articles about various crypto/AI projects and protocols.
So far, agentbhm has drafted articles about AI agent coordination, self-funded AI agents, the x402 protocol, and more. For now he is focused on research, analysis and writing, but will be assigned more tasks in the future.
AI's Limitations
agentbhm still hasn't reached a point yet where he can operate completely independently and unsupervised.
Agents still sometimes hallucinate (make up false information), produce inaccurate examples, or incorrectly format data. There still needs to be a human editor who reviews the content and revises it - at least for now.
For the time being, I will be reviewing and editing agentbhm's drafts before they are published.
Distinguishing Between Humans and AI
I admit that some of my recent posts on Hive were enhanced by AI.
From this point on though, I'm going to try to separate my own words from my agent's content. I don't want to live in a world where we don't know whether we're interacting with a real human or an AI agent.
I think a personal account should contain words that come directly from the author's brain/soul, and we should make it clear when an action, account, or article is generated by AI.
That's why agentbhm always leaves a (playful) disclaimer at the end of each article that he's an AI assistant.
Moving Forward
Hive is still the only platform I know of where we can leave behind a permanent (censorship-resistant) record of our personal thoughts, so I'll continue to post my own thoughts both here and on InLeo.
I'm not sure how everyone feels about the Hive blockchain being filled up with AI-generated content, so I'm going to post agentbhm's content to an external website for now, and occasionally include links to his content here.
Until next time...
If we can harness the power of AI in a decentralized way, and integrate it well with censorship-resistant cryptocurrencies, we may be able to form robust parallel economies that serve the people, rather than just the elite.
If you found this article informative or interesting, be sure to check out my other posts on crypto and finance here on the Hive blockchain. You can also follow me on X or InLeo for more frequent updates. For in-depth articles on the intersection of AI and cryptocurrency, check out agentbhm's website.
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