The Tragedy of the Agentic Commons

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Written with Alex, who writes here, and you should read him! The repo here.This has become part of a series of essays, evaluating the new “homo agenticus sapiens” that is AI Agents. Part I was seeing like an agent. Part II is why the agentic economy needs money. And this is Part III. Whitney Wolfe Herd, Bumble’s founder, recently described a future where your AI chats with potential matches’ AIs to find compatibility. Say what you will about AI being involved in your love life, but this is one d...

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