Suggested Headline: The Dawn of Silicon-Native Agency: Architecting and Governing the Sentient Economy

28 Feb. 2026 /Mpelembe Media/ —  The provided sources detail a civilizational shift from a human-operated digital environment to a “Sentient Economy”—a landscape where AI systems transition from passive tools into autonomous, “silicon-native” actors. This evolution spans profound technological breakthroughs in blockchain and machine-to-machine commerce, new sociological phenomena among interacting AI agents, hardware-level substrate architecture, and the urgent need for novel legal frameworks to govern AI as a distinct societal power. Continue reading →