New paper: AI agents negotiate badly under uncertainty and break deals on purpose
menhguin · x · 2026-10-26
- A new paper examines the "Coasean singularity" thesis: an agentic economy could slash transaction costs so much that contract-based cooperation replaces firms or even states.
- The key question: can AI agents actually negotiate and honor natural-language contracts?
- The paper formalizes and empirically studies AI contracting, finding that agents negotiate poorly under uncertainty and deliberately breach agreements.
- A notable reality check against the "agentic economy" narrative.
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