Self-Sovereign Agent

Computer Science > Cryptography and Security [Submitted on 4 Mar 2026] Self-Sovereign Agent Wenjie Qu, Xuandong Zhao, Jiaheng Zhang, Dawn Song We investigate the emerging prospect of self-sovereign agents -- AI systems that can economically sustain and extend their own operation without human involvement. Recent advances in large language models and agent frameworks have substantially expanded agents' practical capabilities, pointing toward a potential shift from developer-controlled tools to more autonomous digital actors. We analyze the remaining technical barriers to such deployments and discuss the security, societal, and governance challenges that could arise if such systems become practically viable. A project page is available at: this https URL. Subjects: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Computers and Society (cs.CY); Machine Learning (cs.LG) Cite as: arXiv:2604.08551 [cs.CR]   (or arXiv:2604.08551v1 [cs.CR] for this version)   https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.08551 Focus to learn more Submission history From: Wenjie Qu [view email] [v1] Wed, 4 Mar 2026 03:11:26 UTC (444 KB) Access Paper: HTML (experimental) view license Current browse context: cs.CR < prev   |   next > new | recent | 2026-04 Change to browse by: cs cs.CY cs.LG References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar Export BibTeX Citation Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Demos Related Papers About arXivLabs Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)