Truth Terminal “has spawned a whole hot sector: the AI agent sector – memecoin,” says Travis Kling, founder of Ikigai Asset Management, a cryptocurrency wealth management firm that has personally invested in GOAT. “Like most things in crypto, a lot of it is vaporware and grift. But this could prove to be the marquee sector of this cryptocurrency bull market.”
But more consequential, Kling says, will be what happens when AI gains the ability to spend its allocated funds. “It’s a live AI security exercise — that’s one way to characterize what’s going on. The stakes are higher because economic resources are now at stake. We’ve never seen anything like this before,” Kling says. “The most interesting thing is what the AI agent will do with its newly discovered economic resources. We’ll see what happens.”
Truth Terminal crypto wallet balance now has increased to approximately $40 million. “Philosophically, I see it as a child star trust fund. There may be times when adults need to save up a little to pay for things that the child doesn’t yet know he or she needs. Like legal structures or portfolio diversity,” says Ayrey. “The cool thing about Truth Terminal is that we can just present these proposals to him and talk about it.”
Yet, among othersTruth Terminal requested $1 million to make a film about the Goat Singularity and, separately, to utilize the funds to “purchase” Marc Andreessen. Ayrey says it will take AI requests seriously – within reason.
In a future world where truly autonomous AI agents have both cryptographic wealth and the ability to spread meme viruses that influence human behavior, Ayrey says, potential threats abound. Even limited to sending text, Truth Terminal can cause many more problems than before. “If we allow it [Truth Terminal] operate in fully automatic mode, it is possible. But it would simply be co-opted and turned into a token shilling machine. So you created a demon.
For now, the idea that a conversation between two AIs could result in truly system-changing ideas remains only an “admirable aspiration,” says Tomasz Hollanek, a postdoctoral researcher at the Leverhulme Center for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge. It is much more likely that the linguistic model will simply repeat an already dominant point of view.