Principal agent frictions reemerge in new forms in the agentic economy, as user sovereign bring your own agents compete with platform controlled bowling shoe agents, creating incentives for proprietary enclosure and interoperability throttling.
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Principal-agent frictions reemerge in new forms: user-sovereign "bring-your-own" agents compete with platform-controlled "bowling-shoe" agents, creating incentives for proprietary enclosure and interoperability throttling
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Wulf A. Kaal, The AI-to-AI Economy and the Collapse of Anthropocentric Economic Theory (2025), Toward an Emergent Theory of the AI-to-AI Economy, p. 35 https://ssrn.com/abstract=5886442 · source PDF
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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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arises where agent platforms are controlled by intermediaries rather than by users
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