Olas

Humans have always strived to automate repetitive processes in their everyday lives. Today, as “software is eating the world”, the focus is shifting from automation toward higher levels of autonomy. We believe that autonomous services (which run continuously and take their own actions) are a technological imperative in a future with increased human autonomy.

In sharp contrast to our vision, current web-based, global mega-corporations create automation that, more often than not, places humans at the service of machines. Marketing techniques are increasingly brazen in confounding the distinct concepts of autonomy, using “self-operating” (as in machines and systems) which the consumer can take to mean "user-determined". Self-driving cars are an example: "autonomy" is used as a selling point for self-operating systems that are decidedly not user-determined; users yield significant control to opaque algorithms, and forfeit their private data.

Autonolas seeks to maximize machine autonomy to benefit human autonomy. We believe that autonomous services – services that require little to no input from humans by design – are best used in the service of humans. When operated using transparent software by groups, with open participation, the extreme reliability of autonomous services benefits humans the most.