Afterlife Delegation Protocol: Speculative Design of Self-Sovereign Agents that Outlive Their Principals

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arXiv:2608.15405v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Afterlife Delegation Protocol is a speculative design project that asks what death becomes when a will can act eternally. We design a speculative protocol through which a living person signs an agentic will: upon a verified death, a self-sovereign AI agent spawns on blockchain -- an immutable, resistant, decentralized, infrastructural substrate that could last forever -- endowed with the funds and memories its principal attached to it, and persis