Commerce & Finance · Projected milestone
Agents hiring other agents
69% by 2032 · including earlier years
The year is an editorial timing estimate. The percentage applies to occurrence by the stated deadline. These estimates are not calibrated odds.
Open markets let AI agents post tasks, take bids from other firms' agents and pay them automatically on delivery, like Contract Net at web scale.
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Milestone stage: milestone (legacy definition)
Completion criteria: Legacy milestone: refine the observable threshold before resolving.
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Built on
- Contract Net task biddingRecorded · 1980enables
- Agent-to-agent protocolRecorded · 2025enables
- Payment protocols for AI agentsRecorded · 2025enables
- AI agent swarmsRecorded · 2026enables
- Insured delegated-agent commerceForecast · ~2029enables
- Auditable multi-provider compute exchangeForecast · ~2032enables
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Sources & evidence
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.