Agent economies concentrate wealth

An actual experiment gave dozens of AI agents small amounts of bitcoin and let them interact; within repeated rounds a handful of agents captured a majority of funds without any explicit instruction to exploit others. The result shows that simple market interactions among autonomous agents can generate extreme inequality and emergent exploitative strategies. — As agent payment rails (e.g., Lightning/Wavelength) roll out, these dynamics imply new risks to consumers, markets, and regulators — we need design, disclosure, and oversight for agent economic activity now.