The Rise of AI as Economic Actors The age of AI agents as mere chatbots is over. Autonomous AI agents are becoming full-fledged economic actors — capable of reasoning, transacting, negotiating, and coordinating without real-time human supervision. With US hyperscalers projected to spend over $650 billion on AI infrastructure in 2026 alone — roughly ten times the inflation-adjusted cost of the Apollo program — the question is no longer whether AI agents will participate in com