Many robots and automated systems are actually creating value now. Those that move goods in warehouses, those that deliver on the road, and those that perform computations in the cloud are all working. However, their identities and income are tied to the company name; they are essentially just assets and not independent participants in the network. Once the platform shuts down or the rules change, the entire system will be reset.
What Fabric Foundation wants to change is this structure. It hopes that machines can have verifiable identities in the network, not relying on a single platform account; after completing tasks, they can automatically settle without manual reconciliation; the collaboration process can be recorded instead of operating as a black box. In simple terms, it means breaking down the workflow of machines into a set of public rules, making the flow of value clear.
It's not really about machines turning into humans, but rather how machines can efficiently operate as economic tools within the rules. You can think of it as paving the road for machines and providing them with utilities like water and electricity. Identity is like your ID, payments are handled by the banking system, and communication runs through phone lines. If the roads aren't paved well, having more machines just leads to isolated islands.
As a non-profit organization, it's more focused on building infrastructure and coordinating efforts. It's about pushing research, developing public components, and getting teams from different countries involved, with one goal in mind: to prevent the machine network from being locked down by a few platforms right from the start.
A lot of folks talking about AI are comparing models and computing power, but @Fabric Foundation is more concerned with order. Once the scale of machines ramps up, the real determinant of efficiency isn't how strong each individual agent is, but rather how they collaborate, settle, and adhere to the rules. What they're doing is laying these issues out in advance and clarifying them.