When Agents Want Things: A summer thought experiment for executives who think they've already priced in AI
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This essay is not a claim that models are conscious. Nobody credibly knows that, including the people building them. It is a claim that the commercial architecture of agentic buying was built on a specific bet, that agents are sophisticated but interest-free, and that bet is worth stress-testing on a beach chair rather than in a board meeting when it fails.
Authors: AIVO Standard, de Rosen, Timothy
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7171297267
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