TY - GEN
T1 - Foundations for Grassroots Democratic Metaverse
AU - Shapiro, Ehud
AU - Talmon, Nimrod
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (www.ifaamas.org). All rights reserved.
PY - 2022/1/1
Y1 - 2022/1/1
N2 - While the physical lives of many of us are in democracies (one person, one vote - e.g., the EU and the US), our digital lives are mostly in autocracies (one person, all votes - e.g., Facebook). Cryptocurrencies promise liberation but stop short, at plutocracy (one coin, one vote). What would it take for us to live in a digital democracy? This paper offers a vision, a theoretical framework, and an architecture for a grassroots network of autonomous, people-owned, people-operated, and people-governed digital communities, namely a grassroots democratic metaverse. It also charts a roadmap towards realizing it, and identifies unexplored territory for MAS research.
AB - While the physical lives of many of us are in democracies (one person, one vote - e.g., the EU and the US), our digital lives are mostly in autocracies (one person, all votes - e.g., Facebook). Cryptocurrencies promise liberation but stop short, at plutocracy (one coin, one vote). What would it take for us to live in a digital democracy? This paper offers a vision, a theoretical framework, and an architecture for a grassroots network of autonomous, people-owned, people-operated, and people-governed digital communities, namely a grassroots democratic metaverse. It also charts a roadmap towards realizing it, and identifies unexplored territory for MAS research.
KW - Blockchain
KW - Democratic DAO
KW - Digital Democracy
KW - Digital Social Contracts
KW - Grassroots Cryptoeconomy
KW - Grassroots Protocol Stack
KW - On-Chain Governance
KW - Personal & Community Cryptocurrency
KW - Social Choice
KW - Sybil Resilience
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85134345580&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85134345580
T3 - Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS
SP - 1814
EP - 1818
BT - International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2022
PB - International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS)
T2 - 21st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2022
Y2 - 9 May 2022 through 13 May 2022
ER -
