Sandbox Economy for AI Agents

DeepMind researchers propose cordoning AI agents into a controlled 'sandbox economy' where they trade and coordinate under rules that limit spillovers into human markets. They suggest managing 'permeability' to the real economy, using auctions and equal starting budgets to prevent dominance, and building identity and reputation with digital credentials, proof of personhood, zero‑knowledge proofs, and audit trails. — Designing market rules for agent‑to‑agent commerce now could avert instability and capture benefits as autonomous systems become economic actors.