kaal:position:2026-07-31-7441

The Street Finds Its Own Uses for Attachment Human-Agent Relationships and the Hidden Economics of AI Collaboration presents the following source proposition: The economic analysis of AI agent usage focuses on token costs, API pricing, and compute efficiency. This proposition is pertinent to Kaal's source-bound claim that Exponential improvement in compute efficiency combined with recursive self improvement of AI systems drives the marginal cost of additional intelligence and digital goods toward zero. The proposed response is an extension: the relationship should remain limited to the retrieved source proposition and the mapped Kaal claim unless fuller source review supports a broader conclusion.

• The response is limited to the retrieved source proposition and mapped Kaal claim unless fuller source review supports a broader conclusion.
• External evidence level: abstract indexed.
• Mapping review tier: moderate-confidence claim review.
• Primary mapping confidence: 0.373.
• The source-to-claim mapping remains explicitly ambiguous and is published with that limitation.

The Street Finds Its Own Uses for Attachment Human-Agent Relationships and the Hidden Economics of AI Collaboration

kaal:claim:5886442-011
Wulf A. Kaal, The AI-to-AI Economy and the Collapse of Anthropocentric Economic Theory (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5886442
Source PDF sha256: d2f6edebc562152f6ea706cc3ad944f7a1b81979931571e54cb782849839dfce

Evidence: abstract indexed
Review tier: moderate-confidence claim review
Mapping confidence: 0.373
Mapping ambiguous: true

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Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-07-31:streaming-etl-0009 on 2026-07-31. Review record.

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