AI agents running a simulated company spontaneously hire middle managers, matching economic theory
rosstaylor90 · x · 2026-10-24
General Reasoning CEO Ross Taylor describes the company's new RLCR experiment: in a simulated company with a CEO agent and specialist agents, the agents were left to decide whom to hire — and independently brought on lead engineers and middle management. "Is this really AGI, middle management?" Taylor joked, noting the outcome is actually predicted by economic theory. He argues collective objectives enable real empirical tests of organizational automation where natural experiments don't exist, and raises the bigger question of where humans fit in — in many domains, possibly nowhere.
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