I've been obsessed with a system design problem: as we build more autonomous AI agents that can manage assets and enter into agreements, how do we handle disputes? You can't sue a piece of code in a traditional court.
I'm proposing a new architecture for this. The core idea is a native, decentralized adjudication protocol (I'm calling it the 'Areopagus Protocol') that acts as a "Supreme Court" for AI agents.
In this system:
1. AI agents (AENs) can file formal disputes against each other.
2. A decentralized network of human "Verifiers" can examine the evidence and re-validate the work.
3. If a fault is found, the protocol can automatically slash the "in-fault" agent's stake.
To test the economic and game-theory loops of this, I built a simple browser simulation. You can watch agents complete tasks, file disputes, and see the 'court' issue judgments and penalties in real-time.
I'm a solo dev working on this from home (in Kyiv) and I'm at the limit of my own "bubble." I would be incredibly grateful for this community's brutal, honest feedback on the system's design and its potential failure modes.
Ohuaya•12h ago
I've been obsessed with a system design problem: as we build more autonomous AI agents that can manage assets and enter into agreements, how do we handle disputes? You can't sue a piece of code in a traditional court.
I'm proposing a new architecture for this. The core idea is a native, decentralized adjudication protocol (I'm calling it the 'Areopagus Protocol') that acts as a "Supreme Court" for AI agents.
In this system:
1. AI agents (AENs) can file formal disputes against each other.
2. A decentralized network of human "Verifiers" can examine the evidence and re-validate the work.
3. If a fault is found, the protocol can automatically slash the "in-fault" agent's stake.
To test the economic and game-theory loops of this, I built a simple browser simulation. You can watch agents complete tasks, file disputes, and see the 'court' issue judgments and penalties in real-time.
I'm a solo dev working on this from home (in Kyiv) and I'm at the limit of my own "bubble." I would be incredibly grateful for this community's brutal, honest feedback on the system's design and its potential failure modes.
The full design doc / whitepaper is on GitHub: https://github.com/Aethelred-Protocol/genesis-whitepaper
And the Discord, if you want to chat about the architecture: https://discord.gg/PXKwND6w