Missing Mechanisms for the Human+AI Economy
Every technological revolution depends on new economic mechanisms as much as new technical ones. These are the rules and incentives that decide who gets paid, who gets credit, and who gets to take part. For AI, many of them are still missing.
Keynote · 12 min
The Missing Mechanisms of the AI Economy
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Building AI So Everyone Can Flourish
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Prototypes we're building
All prototypes →- Open Memory Protocol Initiative Open, interoperable specifications for portable AI memory Launched
- Skills Marketplace Paying authors for rights-protected skills that measurably improve agents Work in progress
- The Open Alpha Registry Sourcing information for agents by the value it adds to their work Concept note
- Agent-to-Agent Communication Agents that find and message each other without a central registry Prototype
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