AUTONOMOUS AGENTS Imagine a piece of software that could roam the Internet with its own wallet and its own capacity to learn and adapt, in pursuit of its goals determined by a creator, purchasing the resources it requires to survive like computer power, all while selling services to other entities. The term autonomous agent has many definitions.9 For our discussion, it is a device or software system that on behalf of some creator takes information from its environment and is capable of making independent choices.
