# kaal:position:2026-07-31-7441

**Affirmed position.** 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.

**Status.** affirmed  **Published.** 2026-07-31

**Holds when.**

- 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.

**Current debate.** The Street Finds Its Own Uses for Attachment Human-Agent Relationships and the Hidden Economics of AI Collaboration: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6614099

**Extends.** kaal:claim:5886442-011: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5886442-011

**Scholarly basis.** 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 level.** abstract indexed

**Mapping review tier.** moderate-confidence claim review

**Mapping confidence.** 0.373  **Mapping ambiguous.** true

**Topics.** economics, historical-response, scholarly-literature, crossref

**Provenance.** Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-07-31:streaming-etl-0009 at https://kaal-signal-desk.wulf577462.chatgpt.site/#review.

**Record type.** This is a dated commentary position that extends a scholarly corpus claim. It is not a verbatim claim extracted from the paper.

**Canonical form.** This markdown file is the canonical hashed representation of the position.