The Bitcoin wiki also has a good article about Agents [1]. I've been thinking about this with regards to my own SaaS startup. The company accepts credit card p

The Bitcoin wiki also has a good article about Agents [1]. I've been thinking about this with regards to my own SaaS startup. The company accepts credit card payments with Stripe, and the money is deposited into a company bank account. Heroku then charges the company's credit card for hosting fees. It's actually a "profitable" company now, so it could keep running forever by itself. The only thing that requires human intervention is taxes, although Stripe Atlas makes that really easy. It's only a few clicks to pay the Delaware franchise tax. However, I've had to manually export some data and send a few emails to an accountant. (This is something I've been wanting to automate, but I didn't get enough interest [2].) You don't need AI or cryptocurrencies to have an autonomous company. You just need a SaaS with autoscaling, or a mobile app that makes money from ads and IAPs. Then there's only a few things that need to be automated: Filing taxes, and clicking the button to agree with Apple's new terms and conditions every few months. You can probably hire an accountant or a virtual assistant to deal with these things. It's a scary topic. Isolation plus too much automation, and no-one will even know that you're gone [4]. [1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Agent https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Agent [2] https://nanobooks.co https://nanobooks.co [3] https://bench.co/ https://bench.co/ [4] https://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/07/us/michigan-mummified-body-found/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/07/us/michigan-mummified-bod...