Re: Announcing the 10-Year SSI Revision Project

On Thu, Dec 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
wrote:


> I've been working on a parallel track, I call it *Self-Sovereign Agents
> (SSA)*. Agents need the same things humans need:
>
> - Identity they control
> - Memory that persists and is portable
> - Reputation that's verifiable
> - Ability to interact without platform lock-in
>
Be careful here.  There is one human that is melvincarvalho@gmail.com.  (At
least that's the presumption, but you could be sharing that account with
many others.)  Things are quite different for AI agents, because you can
have many instances that start from the same model.  What identity do you
mean?  The model's or the instance's or the party supplying the initial
prompt?  Maybe what you need is an identifier for the agent that is tied to
identities, e.g., Melvin's Perplexity Agent #10.

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Alan Karp