AI Flashmobs
Your AI just joined a swarm.
Everyone expectsYour AI assistant books a holiday.
People delegate their money, preferences and political priorities to AI agents.
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Flash Institutions
A million decisions. One negotiating bloc.
Individual agents. Collective power.
An assistant that buys something for one person is a service. Thousands of assistants negotiating together begin to look like an institution.
Delegated preferences, money and commitments can form buying blocs, investment funds, political parties and coordinated crowds. An organisation that believed it had many separate customers meets an actor able to bargain as one.
The worldbuilding connects the applications: the same capacity to pool demand can organise capital and votes. The Innieverse asks who provides identity, reputation, agreements and dispute resolution for these new actors.
Different worlds.
The same transformation.
The Innieverse
The agents need a world of their own.
Everyone expectsAI agents are individual assistants.
Agents acting together need ways to recognise one another, establish reputations, make commitments and settle disputes.
Follow how it could happenThe Subscription MP
£10 a month buys you an MP.
Everyone expectsAI changes political messaging.
What if people subscribed to an organisation that recruited representatives and funded their political work?
Follow how it could happenHorde
A thousand strangers. One app. One border post.
Everyone expectsAI helps authorities predict a crowd.
AI coordination does not stop at purchases and investments. A temporary group can also become a coordinated crowd able to overwhelm an institution’s ordinary capacity to…
Follow how it could happenThe Advertising Butler
The adverts are the best bit now.
Everyone expectsAdverts interrupt the programme.
You are watching television. The service knows what just broke in your house, finds the obscure spare part, checks that it fits and sorts out the purchase.
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