# kaal:claim:5886442-003

**Claim.** Unlike prior automation waves, which merely accelerated human directed activity inside existing institutional frames, the AI-to-AI economy is an ontological break in which computation itself becomes the sovereign medium of exchange.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- contrasts AI2AI with steam, electricity and internet era automation

**Source quote.**

> Prior automation waves merely accelerated human-directed activity within existing institutional frames. AI2AI constitutes an ontological break in which computation itself becomes the sovereign medium of exchange.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *The AI-to-AI Economy and the Collapse of Anthropocentric Economic Theory* (2025), Abstract, page 2

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, The AI-to-AI Economy and the Collapse of Anthropocentric Economic Theory (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5886442

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**Topics.** economics

**Keywords.** ai2ai-economy, automation, economic-ontology, computation-as-currency

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