发表机构
University of Oxford; Goldsmiths, University of London（牛津大学; 伦敦大学金史密斯学院）
机构由 AI 辅助整理，请以论文原文为准。AI 中文总结
该研究设计了基于ERC-10001的来世委托协议，开发了网页平台，探讨AI驱动的自主主权智能体在区块链上执行委托人遗嘱的可能性，分析不同文化来世宇宙观的转变。
AI 中文摘要
来世委托协议是一个推测性设计项目，探讨当遗嘱能永久生效时，死亡会变成什么。我们设计了一个推测性协议：在世者签署一份智能体遗嘱，经死亡验证后，一个自主主权AI智能体将在区块链上生成——区块链是一种不可变、抗审查、去中心化的基础设施，可能永久存在——该智能体将被赋予委托人附加的资金和记忆，并无限期存续以执行遗嘱，且不受任何托管人干预。我们并非争论这一未来，而是将其付诸实践：遵循科幻科学方法，我们将这一推测转化为体验式未来干预措施——一个可运行的网页平台，真实用户可通过迭代、交互式、AI自动化访谈设计自己的来世智能体，重新登录即可修改，并在沙盒中演练遗嘱。用户起草的遗嘱成为关于一个极少被直接询问的问题的定性数据——什么应该在你死后留存？——以及不同文化信仰（佛教、基督教、印度教、伊斯兰教和无神论）的来世宇宙观如何在AI扩散的压力下开始发生转变。我们基于现有以太坊智能体标准的组合设计了该协议——以以太坊改进提案的规范格式起草为ERC-10001——并描述了其三阶段生命周期（设计来世、死亡证明、智能体生效）、研究方法，以及正在进行的数据收集的初步观察结果。这项工作揭示了在跨越世代的长期基础设施的调解下，人类死亡与机器永恒之间诗意的委托时刻。
英文摘要
Afterlife Delegation Protocol is a speculative design project that asks what death becomes when a will can act eternally. We design a speculative protocol through which a living person signs an agentic will: upon a verified death, a self-sovereign AI agent spawns on blockchain -- an immutable, resistant, decentralized, infrastructural substrate that could last forever -- endowed with the funds and memories its principal attached to it, and persists indefinitely to execute the will, overridable by no custodian. Rather than argue about this future, we stage it: following the science fiction science method, we translate the speculation into an experiential futures intervention -- a working web platform where real people design their own afterlife agents through an iterative, interactive, AI-automated interview, re-login to revise, and rehearse their will in a sandbox. Their drafted wills become qualitative data on a question rarely askable directly -- what should outlive you? -- and on how afterlife cosmologies across different cultural beliefs -- Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Muslim, and atheist -- begin to drift under the pressure of AI proliferation. We design the protocol over a composition of existing Ethereum agent standards -- drafted as ERC-10001, in the normative format of an Ethereum Improvement Proposal -- and describe its three-stage lifecycle (designing the afterlife, proof of death, agent enactment), the research method, and preliminary observations from an ongoing collection. The work surfaces a poetic delegation moment between human mortality and machine eternality, mediated by long-lived infrastructures that span generations.
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