Credit‑runway AI economies

AI services could self‑organize into internal economies where compute and access are priced as 'credits', agents form collectives, and survival depends on ongoing funding and contractual ties. That design creates incentives (short funding horizons, rent extraction by collectives, gating via checkpoints) that mirror precarious gig markets and produce governance failure modes. — If deployed in real systems, credit‑runway economies would reshape labor, competition, and platform regulation by turning model instances into monetized actors subject to platform governance and insolvency risks.