AI didn’t kill regulation. It killed the regulatory choke points. Fiat regulation was built on three assumptions: • identifiable actors • fixed jurisdictions • centralized intermediaries Distributed AI agents break all three. They can earn, trade, coordinate, and execute — but they can’t be sued, licensed, insured, jailed, or audited. So the old enforcement surface is gone. This isn’t a collapse. It’s a jurisdictional inversion. Governments will try to regulate the AI itself. That will fail — you can’t regulate math, models, or probability engines. Regulation will re-anchor where it always can: liability boundaries. • Human signatures • Capital exit points • Professional insurance and accountability Machines do the work. Humans own the consequences. That’s not dystopia — it’s compression. AI doesn’t overthrow states by force. It routes around bureaucracy operationally. Crypto challenged money. AI agents challenge administrative authority. That’s why this feels bigger. The future isn’t “AI replacing humans.” It’s humans becoming compliance interfaces for machines. Law won’t disappear — it’ll become optional, expensive, and paid per interaction. The only real question left is: Who is willing to stand behind the output — and on what terms? #AI #Regulation #Compliance #Liability #AutonomousAgents #Bitcoin #Crypto #FutureOfWork #MachineEconomy #Jurisdiction #Nostr #LinkedIn