Fix typos in Agency in AI musing

- 11 body typos: at superhuman, amendment, in the, to answer, placed on, doubled, advantage, sovereignty, at least, these possibilities, self-sovereign computing
- Tag: Self-Soveriegn Computing -> Self-Sovereign Computing
- Whitespace: collapse double space, trim trailing td space

Signed-off-by: Christopher Allen <ChristopherA@LifeWithAlacrity.com>

Author: ChristopherA

_posts/2026-04-22-ai-agency.md

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   - Self-Sovereign Identity
   - AI
-  - Self-Soveriegn Computing
+  - Self-Sovereign Computing
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@@ -30,15 +30,15 @@ What follows are three views of the agentic future: two problems we need to addr
 
 ## View #1: The Authority Problem
 
-The nature of human agency is rapidly changing due to the possibility of agentic delegation and augmentation. Once you could say that an individual's agency would be maintained by their purposefully and mindfully agreeing to all actions undertaken by an application. But that's no longer possible when agents can act as superhuman speeds that are too rapid to actively monitor. Maintaining agency therefore requires a change from tactical overview (agreeing to every action) to strategic overview (agreeing to the scope of action and setting boundaries for the activity).
+The nature of human agency is rapidly changing due to the possibility of agentic delegation and augmentation. Once you could say that an individual's agency would be maintained by their purposefully and mindfully agreeing to all actions undertaken by an application. But that's no longer possible when agents can act at superhuman speeds that are too rapid to actively monitor. Maintaining agency therefore requires a change from tactical overview (agreeing to every action) to strategic overview (agreeing to the scope of action and setting boundaries for the activity).
 
 Fortunately, we already have a model that supports this sort of strategic control while maintaining agency: ["Principal Authority"](https://www.blockchaincommons.com/dispatches/Principal-Authority/). It's literally part of the [Laws of Agency](https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/agency), which define how an agent can be empowered to take on certain tasks. Back in 2021, my work with the [Wyoming legislature](https://wyoleg.gov/Legislation/2021/SF0039) helped to bring it into the world of digital identity by defining your digital identity as something over which you have Principal Authority.
 
 Following the implicit understanding that an individual has control of their identity, the most important element of Principal Authority is probably its definition of duties. When you are temporarily extending your identity to others, including agents, they must promise to use it in certain ways. Those duties should include many of my original self-sovereign principles, including access, interoperability, minimization, portability, protection, and transparency, as well as many others: agents must work for you in good faith, must put your interests above those of theirs (or rather those of their corporate masters), and must act with reasonable care. 
 
-Again, a state legislature has taken the lead on this work. Just this year, Utah passed the [state-endorsed digital identity (SEDI) ammendment](https://le.utah.gov/~2026/bills/static/SB0275.html), which includes a full [digital Bill of Rights](https://www.blockchaincommons.com/dispatches/SEDI/). Among those Rights is a "Duty of Loyalty", which says that processors of digital identity must act int he identity holder's best interest.
+Again, a state legislature has taken the lead on this work. Just this year, Utah passed the [state-endorsed digital identity (SEDI) amendment](https://le.utah.gov/~2026/bills/static/SB0275.html), which includes a full [digital Bill of Rights](https://www.blockchaincommons.com/dispatches/SEDI/). Among those Rights is a "Duty of Loyalty", which says that processors of digital identity must act in the identity holder's best interest.
 
-Creating similar duties and requirements for LLM agents, to ensure that they are working for you, without hidden agendas, is a crucial milestone as the AI era quickly dawns. Principal authority should be a model for doing so. We must use it so answer questions like: Who is an agent delegating from? What is it tasked to do? How can it undertake that task in the way that best protects the Principal and their data? what are the constraints place on the agent?
+Creating similar duties and requirements for LLM agents, to ensure that they are working for you, without hidden agendas, is a crucial milestone as the AI era quickly dawns. Principal authority should be a model for doing so. We must use it to answer questions like: Who is an agent delegating from? What is it tasked to do? How can it undertake that task in the way that best protects the Principal and their data? What are the constraints placed on the agent?
 
 I've suggested some ["predicates"](https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/Research/blob/bcr-2026-007/papers/bcr-2026-xxx-principal-authority.md) for the Gordian Known Value system that might start to address some of these issues, by allowing users and their agents to record things like:
 
@@ -67,11 +67,11 @@ Do we need more? Less? And are these sufficient to also define LLM-driven work o
 
 Though I've talked so far about the work I've been doing on issues (or at the least, "new questions") that are arising from the LLM revolution, it's also important to talk about some of the advantages. And one of the advantages is a growth in the potential of a topic that I've addressed before: [self-sovereign computing](https://www.blockchaincommons.com/dispatches/self-sovereign-computing/).
 
-In my original article on "self-soveriegn computing", I talked about how you could control your digital destiny by running your own tools on your own local machine. It was yet another way to address the issue of agency.
+In my original article on "self-sovereign computing", I talked about how you could control your digital destiny by running your own tools on your own local machine. It was yet another way to address the issue of agency.
 
-Local AI on your own silicon is Self-Sovereign Computing in practice.  Apple Silicon + MLX + local models make it real infrastructure. There's no cloud dependency, no data leaving your machine, no subscription toll. Your data stays on your device. Your inference runs on your hardware. No API key is required.
+Local AI on your own silicon is Self-Sovereign Computing in practice. Apple Silicon + MLX + local models make it real infrastructure. There's no cloud dependency, no data leaving your machine, no subscription toll. Your data stays on your device. Your inference runs on your hardware. No API key is required.
 
-It's also really coming of its own. Some recent advancements in leveraging the M-series silicon have double the inference speed of certain models:
+It's also really coming of its own. Some recent advancements in leveraging the M-series silicon have doubled the inference speed of certain models:
 
 **Metal (Q4_K_M quantization):**
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@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ It's also really coming of its own. Some recent advancements in leveraging the M
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   <tr>
     <td>Decode:</td>
-    <td>52 tok/s </td>
+    <td>52 tok/s</td>
     <td>111 tok/s</td>
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@@ -117,6 +117,6 @@ We built Self-Sovereign Identity so that your keys and credentials could stay un
 
 I've long written that identity is a double-edged sword. If wielded right, it can provide us with considerable power, but if wielded wrong, it can wound us fatally.
 
-The same is true of the agentic power being unleashed by the LLM revolution. The possibilities of self-sovereign computing show how this power could be turned to our adventage, truly empowering the self-soveriegnty that I've long advocated. However, the credit issue demonstrates the new (or at leastly newly highlighted) questions arising from agentic use, while the authority problem reveals that we need to carefully construct guard rails for this new technology.
+The same is true of the agentic power being unleashed by the LLM revolution. The possibilities of self-sovereign computing show how this power could be turned to our advantage, truly empowering the self-sovereignty that I've long advocated. However, the credit issue demonstrates the new (or at least newly highlighted) questions arising from agentic use, while the authority problem reveals that we need to carefully construct guard rails for this new technology.
 
-If you'd like to talk more about this possibilities [email me](mailto:team@blockchaincommons.com). I'm also looking for sponsors and partners to support me in doing more of this work.
+If you'd like to talk more about these possibilities [email me](mailto:team@blockchaincommons.com). I'm also looking for sponsors and partners to support me in doing more of this work.