How many AI agents are running unattended right now?

There are 8 billion human minds running in the world right now. Recently a new digital species has emerged. How many digital minds are there alive in the world right now?Define a digital mind to be an AI agent that runs continuously without human intervention for more than 24 hours. How many of these digital minds are there currently running? We provide several different Fermi estimates based on publicly available information. Based on global token usage we estimate 300k–1M agent loops run at an...