This appears atop a DuckDuckGo search. A few years ago, numbers 1 and 2 would have been down next to number 6.
I wrote a chapter on Agency in The Intention Economy because back then (2012) the word mostly meant an insurance or advertising business. The earlier meaning, derived from the Latin agere, meaning “to do,” had mostly been forgotten.
Now agency is everywhere, and is given fresh meaning with the adjective agentic.
We can thank AI for that. The big craze now is to have AI agents for everything, and to make all kinds of stuff “agentic,” using AI.
Including each of us. We should all maximize our agency with our own personal AI.
With that in mind, and thinking toward upcoming conferences on AI (and our own VRM Day, this coming October 19th ), I just added this section to the VRM Development Work page in our wiki:
Personal AI
Balnce.ai † “Your personal AI, your loyal agents and a network that makes your data work for you.”
Base.org “Base is built to empower builders, creators, and people everywhere to build apps, grow businesses, create what they love, and earn onchain.”
Decentralized AI Agent Alliance “…offers a compelling alternative, giving individuals sovereignty, including ownership of their identity and data.”
GPTbuddy “Human in the loop AI” ([1] @GPTbuddy) is in development by FractalNetworks.
Kwaai “a volunteer-based AI research and development lab focused on democratizing artificial intelligence by building open source Personal AI.” Also, KwaaiNet “AI running distributed on a P2P fabric,” now (July 2025) with Verida “Create and deploy personalized AI agents with secure data connectors, custom knowledge bases, and configurable inference endpoints.”
NANDA: The Internet of AI Agents “Pioneering the Future of Agentic Web.”
The AI Alliance “building and advancing open source AI agents, data, models, evaluation, safety, applications and advocacy to ensure everyone can benefit.”
Please add more, or make corrections on what’s there. If you don’t have editing privileges, just write to me and I’ll make the changes. Thanks!