The Future Of AI May Look More Like An Economy Than A Product. Today's AI products are mostly isolated tools.

07 Jun 2026, 08:00
The Future Of AI May Look More Like An Economy Than A Product. Today's AI products are mostly isolated tools. Tomorrow's AI systems may behave more like economies. Agents competing. Agents collaborating. Agents providing services. Agents consuming services. Agents paying one another. The infrastructure required for that future extends far beyond models. It requires identity, payments, ownership, settlement, and coordination. The conversation around AI is gradually moving from intelligence toward economics.