# Agent Economy **Entity class:** Emerging economic architecture **Domain:** Agentic AI / machine-to-machine markets ## Definition An agent economy is an economic environment in which artificial agents can request services, negotiate terms, exchange value, delegate tasks, form temporary organizations and transact with other agents or people. Its distinctive unit is not an AI-assisted human transaction but an operative artificial participant acting through identity, authorization, payment and contract infrastructure. ## Development path The architecture begins with bounded delegated activity and can grow through interoperable identity, wallets, protocols, reputation and enforcement. Large-scale agent economies may become a social layer of [[wiki/Multi-Agent Systems|Multi-Agent Systems]] and [[wiki/Machine Civilization|Machine Civilization]], but present demonstrations do not prove autonomous machine sovereignty. ## Primary routes [[wiki/Agentic AI|Agentic AI]] · [[wiki/AI Economy|AI Economy]] · [[wiki/Collective Intelligence|Collective Intelligence]] ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > “As AI technology scales, we’re entering a new era. Soon, millions of AI agents—built by different organizations—will interact across digital environments, communicating, negotiating and transacting with one another.” > **— Google DeepMind, Schmidt Sciences, the Cooperative AI Foundation, ARIA and Google.org**, *“Investing in Multi-Agent AI Safety Research,” June 11, 2026* [[reminders/Agentic AI/Millions of AI Agents Will Negotiate and Transact by Google DeepMind and Research Partners|Millions of AI Agents Will Negotiate and Transact by Google DeepMind and Research Partners]]