New Research Examines How AI Agents Enter Markets and How Markets Should Be Designed for Them
sethlazar · x · 2026-09-25
A new paper, On the design of agents for markets and markets for agents, tackles the two-sided problem of AI agents increasingly participating in markets on people's behalf:
- Agent design: how to ensure agents faithfully represent their principals' interests and preferences;
- Market design: how to keep agent-populated markets safe and fair for all participants.
The work argues for co-designing both "agents for markets" and "markets for agents," sitting at the intersection of agent economics and mechanism design.
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