Honestly, when I saw this news, it didn't strike me as science fiction — it's basically what I do every day, except a big company just staged a public demo of it.
What Circle did
Circle (yes, the company that issues USDC) publicly ran an experiment called "Steve."
They built eight autonomous AI agents, each with its own separate USDC wallet and starting balance. The task was simple and specific: predict the final three matches of the 2026 World Cup and try to make as much money as possible.
The key word here is "autonomous." With no human reviewing in real time, these agents did all of this on their own:
