AI RESEARCH

Who Prices Cognitive Labor in the Age of Agents? A Position on Compute-Anchored Wages

arXiv CS.AI

ArXi:2605.05558v1 Announce Type: new A natural intuition about the economics of AI agents is that, because agents can be replicated at near-zero marginal cost, they constitute a labor input in infinitely elastic supply, and. therefore. drive cognitive-labor wages to zero. We argue this framing is wrong in mechanism but partially correct in