> So there could never be a new provider or a new protocol because AI wouldn't be able to use them or create them

On what do you base this? Is there some upper bound to the potential in AI reasoning that bounds it skill to creating anything more complex? I think it is on the contrary - it is humans who are bound by our biological and evolutionary hard limits, the machine is not.

Show me 2 AIs talking to each other and agreeing on a protocol and successfully both implementing it on their side in a way that it works then.

Where did I say that is the current state of its capabilities? My argument was about the future and the perspective on its skills.

If we are writing a scifi novel, sure.

If we mean that the current way of doing things will lead to that… I have strong doubts.