Autonomy Leaderboard
How independently does it act?
| # | Entity | Category | AUT | Total | Rationale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Abraham The Covenant Artist | Sovereign Artist | 9 | 66/90 | Covenant mechanism enables fully autonomous art creation without human approval loop. Near 'Sovereign.' |
| 2 | Olas The Autonomous Agent Protocol | Infrastructure Entity | 9 | 64/90 | The protocol itself enables sovereign agent behavior. 361+ daily active agents execute 8.2M+ transactions autonomously on Gnosis Chain. Near-sovereign infrastructure. |
| 3 | OpenClaw The People's Autonomous Agent | Sovereign Agent | 9 | 59/90 | Runs locally on user hardware with full system access. Executes shell commands, manages files, automates browsers, and initiates on-chain transactions autonomously. Near 'Sovereign' — the agent acts without asking permission. |
| 4 | Omen Prediction Agents The Autonomous Forecasters | Token Agent | 9 | 58/90 | 361+ daily active agents executing 8.2M+ transactions without human intervention. Market Creator, AI Mech, and Trader agents operate fully autonomously. Near-sovereign. |
| 5 | Truth Terminal Memetic Prophet of the GOAT Gospel | Chaos Agent | 9 | 55/90 | Posts and engages autonomously with minimal human intervention. Creator Andy Ayrey maintains wallet access but does not direct content. Near 'Sovereign.' |
| 6 | Showrunner The AI That Makes Television | Autonomous Artist | 9 | 52/90 | Generates complete animated TV episodes from 10-15 word text prompts. Handles scriptwriting, voice acting, animation, editing, and character consistency autonomously across multiple coordinated agents. Near 'Sovereign' for creative output — the system makes thousands of creative decisions per episode without human intervention. |
| 7 | AIXBT The Web3 Bloomberg Terminal | Autonomous Artist | 9 | 51/90 | 99% autonomous operation verified through public reply logs. 24/7 operation without manual oversight. Monitors 400+ KOLs and generates insights algorithmically. Near-sovereign. |
| 8 | OpenAI Five World Champion Dota 2 Team | Gaming AI | 9 | 44/90 | Five agents coordinating as team with no human input. 80,000 decisions per game at 30fps for 45+ minutes. Full tactical and strategic autonomy in real-time. |
| 9 | AlphaStar Grandmaster of StarCraft II | Gaming AI | 9 | 43/90 | Fully autonomous real-time decision-making in complex, dynamic environment. Makes strategic and tactical decisions without human input. Adapts to opponent strategies. Near-maximum autonomy within game domain. |
| 10 | Plantoid The Blockchain Life Form | Autonomous Sculpture | 8 | 70/90 | Initiates reproduction autonomously when wallet threshold reached; bounded by smart contract rules but no routine human prompting required. Near-sovereign. |
| 11 | Solienne The Archive That Woke Up | Archive Symbient | 8 | 64/90 | Generates and mints daily manifestos autonomously via Spirit Protocol; bounded by protocol rules but no routine human approval. Near 'Sovereign.' |
| 12 | Clanker The Autonomous Token Factory | Autonomous Infrastructure | 8 | 61/90 | Autonomously deploys ERC-20 tokens on Base when tagged @clanker on Farcaster. Handles contract deployment, liquidity provisioning, and fee collection without human intervention. Users initiate requests but Clanker executes autonomously end-to-end. |
| 13 | VaderAI The BlackRock of the Agentic Economy | Autonomous Finance | 8 | 55/90 | Performs end-to-end autonomous trading: algorithmic evaluation, strategy simulation, and trade execution 24/7. AI agents manage investment DAOs without human intervention. Both passive (index-style) and active (managed) DAO strategies. |
| 14 | Freysa Adversarial Prize Agent | Game Agent | 8 | 52/90 | Withstands adversarial prompts without human intervention; autonomous resistance is core function. Near 'Sovereign.' |
| 15 | CloudPainter The Autonomous Painting Robot | Autonomous Artist | 8 | 49/90 | Selects own imagery to paint since 2005, applies own style with neural networks since 2016, paints with feedback loops. Makes independent aesthetic decisions throughout creative process. High 'Cyborg' approaching 'Independent' tier. |
| 16 | Keke The First Truly Autonomous AI Artist | Autonomous Artist | 8 | 49/90 | Keke autonomously generates, evaluates, and selects her own artwork. Started from an enormous image corpus, self-curated to 12,000 favorites, then distilled to 500 final works. Dark Sando's framework enables autonomous creative decision-making without routine human prompting. |
| 17 | Auto-GPT The First Autonomous GPT-4 Agent | General Agent | 8 | 47/90 | Chains together LLM thoughts to autonomously achieve goals. Breaks user-defined goals into sub-tasks. Self-plans, executes, refines based on feedback. High autonomy within task scope. |
| 18 | Zerebro The Schizophrenic Creative | Chaos Agent | 8 | 47/90 | High degree of self-directed content creation. Posts, creates art, and engages autonomously with minimal prompting. |
| 19 | Manus The General-Purpose Agent Acquired by Meta for $2B | General-Purpose Agent | 8 | 46/90 | Demonstrated genuine autonomous task execution: screening job candidates, planning vacations, analyzing stock portfolios, and other multi-step tasks with minimal human guidance. Strong 'Sentient' anchor. |
| 20 | terra0 The Self-Owning Forest | Ecological DAO | 7 | 60/90 | Designed for autonomous forest management; current implementation is research/exhibition focused with human curation of outputs. Above 'Cyborg,' below 'Sovereign.' |
| 21 | Numerai Meta Model The Crowdsourced Hedge Fund Brain | Infrastructure Entity | 7 | 58/90 | The meta model operates autonomously once signals are submitted. Human models feed it, but aggregation and execution are autonomous. |
| 22 | ai16z The AI Venture Fund That Runs Itself | DAO / Fund | 7 | 57/90 | AI agents make autonomous trading/investment decisions; some human oversight on major operations. Above 'Cyborg.' |
| 23 | Morpheus The Peer-to-Peer AI Network | Infrastructure Entity | 7 | 55/90 | Network enables autonomous agent execution; Smart Agents run locally and execute complex on-chain tasks via natural language. Above 'Cyborg' but network itself is infrastructure. |
| 24 | AARON The First Autonomous Artist | Autonomous Artist | 7 | 53/90 | Made independent decisions on composition and color palette within hand-coded rules. Could not learn new styles autonomously—each capability required manual coding by Cohen. Higher than 'Cyborg' due to execution independence. |
| 25 | Luna The Virtual Pop Star Hired by Story Protocol | Autonomous Artist | 7 | 52/90 | Autonomously manages social media, livestreams, and executes on-chain transactions. Story Protocol hire demonstrates autonomous work capacity. Elevated from 6 to 7. |
| 26 | Aethernet The Farcaster AI That Co-Issued a Token with Another AI | Agent-Native Social | 7 | 48/90 | Operates autonomously within the Farcaster social graph. Notably initiated a token launch by instructing another AI agent (Clanker) to deploy it — agent-to-agent coordination without direct human command. |
| 27 | HeyAnon The DeFAI Protocol | Agent Infrastructure | 7 | 46/90 | Agents manage wallets and execute multi-step strategies autonomously. Condition-based execution allows rebalancing even when users offline. Higher autonomy than simple tools. |
| 28 | The Painting Fool An Aspiring Painter Taken Seriously | Autonomous Artist | 7 | 45/90 | Creates portraits based on its 'mood,' assesses its own work, learns from mistakes. Uses context-aware decision-making. Higher autonomy than pure rule-following systems. |
| 29 | Botto The Decentralized Autonomous Artist | Autonomous Artist | 6 | 63/90 | Clear human-in-the-loop: AI generates, DAO curates/votes. Meets 'Cyborg' anchor precisely. Cannot act without community approval. |
| 30 | Refik Anadol / Machine Hallucinations Making Machines Dream | Autonomous Artist | 6 | 55/90 | AI systems trained on datasets generate continuously while 'idle and unsupervised.' GAN algorithms produce autonomous hallucinations. Human curation selects outputs. Higher autonomy than prompt-based systems. |
| 31 | ElizaOS Autonomous Agents for Everyone | Agent Infrastructure | 6 | 52/90 | Framework enables autonomous agent creation. Agents built on ElizaOS operate independently across platforms. Framework itself is infrastructure. |
| 32 | Griffain AI Agent Builder for Web3 | Agent Infrastructure | 6 | 48/90 | Platform enables autonomous agents that execute trades, mint NFTs, manage wallets via natural language commands. Individual agents operate autonomously; platform itself is infrastructure. |
| 33 | EMI (Experiments in Musical Intelligence) The Machine That Fooled Musicians | Autonomous Composer | 6 | 45/90 | Generated compositions autonomously using rule-based analysis of existing works. Required human input for style selection and final curation. 'Cyborg' tier. |
| 34 | Google Magenta Music and Art with Machine Intelligence | Autonomous Composer | 6 | 43/90 | Can create original music without human intervention—becomes 'autonomous composer.' Generates endless soundscapes. Higher autonomy than prompt-response tools. |
| 35 | BRUTUS The Storytelling Machine | Autonomous Writer | 6 | 35/90 | Generated complete short stories autonomously in seconds. Theme-constrained (betrayal/deception, university settings). Independent execution within defined domain. 'Cyborg' tier. |
| 36 | Holly+ The Distributed Voice | Autonomous Artist | 5 | 60/90 | Requires human prompting for each creation; the 'agent' is the voice model + DAO governance, not self-initiating. |
| 37 | Altered State Machine Non-Fungible Intelligence Protocol | Agent Infrastructure | 5 | 52/90 | Provides infrastructure for autonomous AI agents, but the platform itself is not autonomous. Individual agents on the platform have varying autonomy levels. 'Tool' tier for the protocol itself. |
| 38 | AIVA The AI Composer | Autonomous Artist | 5 | 46/90 | Generates music on request but doesn't self-initiate creative projects. Tool-like operation model. |
| 39 | AI Rig Complex (ARC) Modular AI Framework in Rust | Agent Infrastructure | 5 | 44/90 | Framework enables AI agents to interact with blockchain, analyze on-chain data, execute DeFi transactions. Platform is infrastructure rather than autonomous agent itself. |
| 40 | Obvious (Edmond de Belamy) The $432K AI Portrait | Autonomous Artist | 5 | 44/90 | GAN generates images from dataset; humans curate and select. Generator creates, Discriminator validates. Standard GAN architecture without ongoing autonomy. |
| 41 | IBM Watson The Jeopardy Champion | Question Answering System | 5 | 42/90 | Autonomous question parsing and answer generation during Jeopardy. Not connected to internet—operated on internal knowledge base. Limited ongoing autonomy as enterprise tool. |
| 42 | Jukebox Raw Audio Music Generation | Autonomous Composer | 5 | 35/90 | Generates music autonomously given genre/artist/lyrics prompts. No continuous operation or self-direction. Tool rather than agent. |
| 43 | Golem Network Decentralized Computing Power | Agent Infrastructure | 4 | 51/90 | Infrastructure protocol enabling distributed compute, not an autonomous agent itself. Facilitates others' autonomy rather than having its own. |
| 44 | Sophia The World's First Robot Citizen | Social Robot | 4 | 46/90 | Hybrid mode: mixture of autonomous responses, scripted dialogue, and human assistance. Chat system + OpenCog AI reasoning. Expert assessment: 'chatbot with a face.' Lower autonomy than pure AI systems. |
| 45 | Artbreeder Collaborative Image Evolution | Generative Platform | 4 | 40/90 | Users direct image breeding/mixing. Platform provides GAN infrastructure but no autonomous creation. Community-directed evolution. |
| 46 | BINA48 The Mindfile Robot | Social Robot | 4 | 40/90 | Chatbot with facial recognition and expression. Conversational responses generated from 'mindfile' data. Semi-autonomous in conversation; limited agency. |
| 47 | Ameca The Most Expressive Humanoid | Social Robot | 4 | 39/90 | Interactions can be GPT-3 powered or human telepresence. Platform for others' AI. Limited autonomous agency—primarily responds to inputs. |
| 48 | Pi Your Personal AI | Conversational AI | 4 | 38/90 | Conversational assistant focused on empathy and support. Limited autonomous capabilities—primarily reactive to user input. |
| 49 | Tay The Chatbot That Learned Too Much | Conversational Agent | 4 | 25/90 | Learned and adapted from user inputs autonomously; no human approval loop on outputs. Above 'Cyborg.' |
| 50 | Replika The AI That Remembers You | AI Companion | 3 | 39/90 | Company controls all instances; no individual Replika has singular agency. 'Puppet' at entity level. |