ERC-7777: Proposal for Human Robot Societies

Title: Identity and Governance Interface for Human Robot Societies
Description: This ERC defines standardized interfaces for managing the identities of humans and robots, establishing and maintaining laws (“rule sets”) that apply to those societies, and standardizing the immigration (“registering”) and emigration (“leaving”) of humans and robots from the rights and responsibilities of those rule sets.
Author: OpenMind, Jan Liphardt jan@openmind.org, Shaohong Zhong shaohong@openmind.org, Boyuan Chen boyuan@openmind.org, Paige Xu paige@openmind.org
Status: Draft
Type: Standards Track
Category: ERC
Created: 2024-09-29

The rapid integration of robots into various industries and everyday life presents a unique challenge: how do we efficiently manage interactions between robots and humans in a secure, transparent, and scalable way? Traditional centralized systems often fall short, with issues related to inefficiency, lack of transparency, and limited scalability.

To address this, we propose a new ERC designed to leverage Ethereum’s decentralized infrastructure to facilitate seamless and secure human-robot interactions. By utilizing smart contracts, this ERC aims to provide a verifiable, rule-based ecosystem that ensures security, transparency, and scalability. It could serve as the foundation for managing complex interactions between humans and robots in a decentralized environment, with the potential to set a new standard for the secure and responsible integration of robots into our society.

We’d love to hear your thoughts on this proposal! We think this ERC could play a key role in shaping the future of decentralized human-robot interactions.

Abstract
This proposal defines two core interfaces: IUniversalIdentity and IUniversalCharter, providing mechanisms for humans, and robots to establish their identities and to create decentralized communities governed by specific rule sets. The IUniversalIdentity interface establishes the fair and equitable treatment of sentient computer architectures other than the human brain, enabling robots to acquire on-chain identities, and thereby interact and transact with humans. The IUniversalCharter enables humans and robots to create, join (“register”), maintain (“update”), leave, and terminate self-regulated societies based on predefined rule sets, providing a framework for collaboration and prosperity for mixed societies of humans and robots. These interfaces aim to provide a flexible yet enforceable structure for human-robot interactions in decentralized systems, ensuring efficiency, transparency, and security for all participants.

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This is really interesting! I’m curious what some real-world examples of this would be. For ex, how would this function in industries like healthcare? Smart cities? Manufacturing? Etc.

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Extremely interested to learn more about this, and how it fits in to a broader vision for R2R and R2X communication/messaging