One morning in the near future, on far-flung servers many miles from Wall Street, a new type of organization begins buying and selling stock. Its mission: maximize return on investment. It uses a network of AI agents integrated into global trading platforms to buy and sell stock in milliseconds — fast, adaptive, and unburdened by human fatigue.

This is much more sophisticated than today's algorithmic traders. These agents aren’t just executing trades based on preordained rules and thresholds. They’re operating autonomously: using analysis to identify new markets, acquiring controlling interests in companies, and making complex strategic decisions typically left to human traders. By noon, the AI organization owns significant stakes in a dozen firms. It begins using its insider knowledge to front-run trades — an illegal practice similar to insider trading. But there's another twist: thanks to distributed blockchain technology, this organization's human owners are completely anonymous. Authorities are [...]

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Outline:

(02:28) The Emergence of AI-Enabled Autonomous Organizations

(06:39) Why Current Regulatory Frameworks Are Unprepared

(08:45) Governing Autonomous Organizations

(11:20) Digital Golems

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