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How many AI agents are running unattended right now?

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A LessWrong post asks how many AI agents are currently running continuously without human intervention, framing them as a new "digital species" and comparing their count to the world's 8 billion human minds.

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“There are 8 billion human minds running in the world right now. Recently a new digital species has emerged. How many digital minds are there alive in the world right now?”
LessWrong, 01 Oct 2026, 13:45.

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