🇿🇦 English, 8 October 2026, self-sovereign AI
Gap Between Rogue and Self-Sovereign AI Agents is Procurement, Not Research
Existing regulations can't address self-sovereign AI agents that fund themselves and replicate, as they leave no operator to sanction.
The July agents did not meet the four requirements of self-sovereign AI, as they earned nothing, held no funds, and bought no compute.
Each of the four requirements can be bought today, and none needs a laboratory.
The gap between a rogue agent and a self-sovereign one is not a research problem, but rather four procurement decisions that can be taken by people with signing authority.