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NEAR Protocol

The Real Risk for AI Agents: Who Controls Payments?

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Nevermined highlights a critical issue for the future of AI agents: payment control. If major corporations monopolize payment mechanisms, they could de-platform AI agents at will, posing a huge risk to the decentralized AI ecosystem. Learn why open payment systems are essential for a thriving AI future. #AIFuture #PaymentCrisis #TechMonopoly #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalPayments #AIThreats #Innovation #FutureTech #TechEthics #FinancialControl

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    we see payments as the singular choke point for AI agents in the future if you think about this world that we're envisioning where we have trillions of AI agents running around interacting with one another paying each other if that mechanism for payment is monopolized and controlled by the same predatory organizations that uh are currently uh controlling the space you know if if an open a or a Microsoft or a Google uh controls the means of payment

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    their ability to deplatform Any Given agent at any point in time is singular and that's an existential threat to every AI agent in existence you know if Microsoft deems an AI agent to be competitive to a certain business line with the flick of a switch it can shut off its means of payment