We're sprinting into an agentic economy where AIs don't just answer questions; they negotiate, bid, and transact with other agents in real time. Some AIs even "rent" humans for last-mile physical tasks: opening doors, moving boxes, verifying inventory. And as "world models" from Waymo and Yan LeCun gain traction, they're beginning to describe us better than we describe ourselves. We might see a shift from the physical state to the AI state: reputation scores, permissions, embeddings, and the invisible markets running behind every click.

To unpack where this is going — as well as who gets to design it — join esteemed technologist and visiting Senior Lecturer Lutz Finger for a conversation with Emaad Manzoor, Assistant Professor of Marketing at Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, about the role of humans in an agentic economy.

As one of the leading thinkers in the field, Emaad will explain how agents and human-algorithm collaboration works. His work spans reinforcement learning, causal inference with unstructured data, and market design choices.

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  • How AI agents are evolving from Q&A tools to autonomous economic actors capable of real-time market transactions
  • A look at the blending of the physical and digital worlds as AIs coordinate human tasks while modeling human behavior
  • How personal identity is shifting toward AI-readable metrics, from reputation scores to permissions, that drive algorithmic markets

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