Virtual Agent Economies

Nenad Tomasev, Matija Franklin, Joel Z. Leibo, Julian Jacobs, William A. Cunningham, Iason Gabriel, … (+1 more) — 2025-09-12 — DeepMind — arXiv

Summary

Proposes the ‘sandbox economy’ framework for analyzing emergent AI agent economies, discussing design choices for safely steerable agent markets including auction mechanisms, mission economies, and socio-technical infrastructure for trust, safety, and accountability.

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