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Ghosts in Machines

GuidelinesThe idea of this contest is to imagine many futures full of distributed AI, connected through protocols of all sorts, including current real protocols in development such as MCP and A2A, blockchain protocols, existing mature protocols, a...

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Printed in the United States of America Printing history: December 2023 Introduction | 5 New Time Machines | 13 Aaron Z Lewis, Kei Kreutler, Alice Noujaim,

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