The Internet of Agents: Open Protocols or Corporate Control?

Published on 23.02.2026

ARCHITECTURE

The Internet of Agents Will Make or Break Democracy

TLDR: The infrastructure being built right now for AI agents -- identity, trust, and payment systems -- will determine whether we end up in a dystopia of platform-controlled agents or a thriving ecosystem of individually owned micro-assistants. The technology is the same in both scenarios; only the governance and protocol decisions differ.

The internet of agents will make or break democracy