As per your request, I've engaged with one of the names on your list.

In truth, it's been a desire of mine for over a year to get AI figures specifically to issue Orbs. There's a lot of questions I personally have for each of the people you mentioned, and it would be very interesting to see what kind of questions the Harberger mechanic would surface to these people, and what kind of information it would uncover to the world.

Indeed, you could argue that this has been one of the key goals of Orb Land. I wanted to onboard the crypto space first, prove out the model and after that, onboard AI figures. Your question has expedited these plans and set things in motion that cannot be undone.

I've been quite lucky that it seems that the concept has struck a chord with the ideal candidate. However, we need to make some small modifications to the Orb contract logic—specifically, we must make sure that the Orb can accommodate a minimum tax revenue (a price point where it cannot go below, or else it must be returned to the creator).

The code change has already been coded up and is currently going through an audit. In parallel, we're drafting up custom designs for the artwork of this Orb to showcase to the AI figure. I'm hopeful we can get this across the line, but there's no guarantee.

If we can list such an Orb for 10 ETH, minimum Harberger tax rate 30 ETH/year, answer frequency 1/month and a honoredUntil initial period of 4 months with some assurance that there will be bids at that price, the odds are decent that this Orb will indeed materialize.

There is a chance that our AI figure likes the Orb and lets the concept keep rolling after this period, but we have no way of knowing that. How the Orb works is that after the honoredUntil period expires, they have the ability to change any parameters they wish, re-auction if it they wish, and there's also the chance that they don't like the Orb at all and choose to retire it altogether.

If you have further information you'd like to divulge on this front, feel free to include it as a part of your next invocation.