Re: Agents Economic Systems

It depends on what is the actual external and internal implementations of the agent.

 
If an agent’s internal boundaries are a closed system (“not sharing”), it’s external interactions can be managed via roles (i.e. RBAC limits the scope of what the agent could do).
If an agent’s internal boundaries are an open system (“sharing”), it’s interactions need to be limited by those tasking the agent (i.e. “just in time” access control)
 

If their assumption is that the agents just co-exist like if we’re in the wild west … then obviously nothing works and we all sound like an episode of Black Mirror meeting Westworld 😊

 

Regards,

 

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Joshua Cornejo

marketdata

smart authorisation management for the AI-era

 

From: Lorenzo Moriondo <tunedconsulting@gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, 16 September 2025 at 12:04
To: public-webagents <public-webagents@w3.org>
Subject: Agents Economic Systems
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Resent-Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 11:03:41 +0000

 

Hello,

 

in my opinion it would be useful to get in touch with the authors of this paper or to consider integrating some from this point of view as far as it overlaps with the work of the group:

 

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.10147

 

"This paper proceeds from the assumption that unless a change is made, our current trajectory points toward the accidental emergence of a vast, and likely permeable, sandbox economy. Our central challenge, therefore, is not whether to create this ecosystem, but how to architect it to ensure it is steerable, safe, and aligned with user and community goals.

A fully permeable and emergent sandbox 

would be, in practice, functionally equivalent to AI agents simply participating in the existing human economy. The “sandbox” terminology is useful, however, because it allows us to contrast this default trajectory with other possibilities, such as intentionally designed and impermeable agent economies created for safe experimentation. It also highlights that some degree of impermeability may (or may not) emerge naturally (e.g. if there are practical difficulties in transacting between humans and AIs). The framework highlights that permeability is the critical and controllable design variable. "

 

I think these are the kind of challenges that we are trying to tackle with this group mission.

 

Best,

 

Lorenzo Moriondo
ロレンツォ・モリオンドオ
https://linkedin.com/in/lorenzomoriondo