New economy built with AI agents will work around old economy rather than through it.
Predictor: Dave Blundin · ep#231 "Top AI News: Sonnet 4.6, Grok 4.2, Gemini 3 Deep Think, and OpenClaw | EP #231" · source
Prediction text
New economy built with AI agents will work around old economy rather than through it. | This is also a bellweather of a trend that that I think is inevitable now where the new economy built with the AI agents is going to work around the old economy rather than through it.
Verbatim quote
This is also a bellweather of a trend that that I think is inevitable now where the new economy built with the AI agents is going to work around the old economy rather than through it.
Predictor: Dave Blundin
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Milestone chain
- 2025-09-30hitStripe launches Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP) — agents transact directlyHow: Stripe publicly launches first standard for AI agents to execute commerce flows bypassing legacy clicksSource: Stripe blog: Introducing the Agentic Commerce Suiteconf 99%Notes: HIT — ACP launched Sept 2025. First live standard for AI agents to programmatically transact, bypassing the human-clickstream economy.
- 2026-04-15hitChatGPT daily commerce queries surpass 50MHow: OpenAI or third-party analytics confirm >=50M daily purchase-intent queries inside ChatGPTSource: Opascope: AI Shopping Assistant Guide 2026conf 85%Notes: HIT — ~53M daily commerce queries inside ChatGPT confirms agent-mediated commerce is bypassing search/Amazon legacy paths.
- 2026-04-01hitWalmart and Target integrate into agent-ready commerce protocolsHow: Walmart and Target publicly announce ACP / AP2 / MCP integration for AI-agent purchasingSource: Stripe newsroom; Forrester: Agentic Payments in B2C Commerceconf 85%Notes: HIT — major retailers announced agent-protocol integrations Q1 2026, accommodating new economy directly.
- 2026-04-15hitCompeting protocol war emerges: ACP vs AP2 vs MPP vs x402How: Multiple non-trivially-adopted agentic-commerce protocols (Stripe ACP, Google AP2, Cloudflare x402, others) compete for default railsSource: CCN: AI Agents Need Payment Rails — MPP, ACP, AP2, x402 explained; PayRam: Protocol Warsconf 90%Notes: HIT — full protocol war underway, evidencing entirely separate rails being built around legacy retail/payments stack.
- 2027-06-01 → 2028-06-30pendingAgent-mediated transactions reach >=10% of US e-commerce GMVHow: US Census / Adobe Analytics / Salesforce confirm >=10% of e-commerce GMV originated from AI-agent-driven transactionsSource: Adobe Digital Economy, US Census quarterly e-commerce reportsconf 45%Notes: Strongest test of 'new economy works around old' in Blundin's target window. Direct GMV measurement.
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Top incoming (parents)
Edges that influence THIS node's belief
| Kind | Node | Their prob | P(c|s=T) | P(c|s=F) | Δ implied |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| prereq | 231_018 Blitz will switch to next generation model in late March 202 — Dave Blundin | 29.8% | 0.700 | 0.050 | -0.295 |
| prereq | 231_002 Grok 5 launches in March with massive expansion in training — Dave Blundin | 29.8% | 0.700 | 0.050 | -0.295 |
| killer | TK03 AI Regulatory Moratorium (EU/US Capability Freeze) | 10.0% | 0.050 | 0.700 | +0.101 |
| killer | TK02 AI Compute Supply Shock (TSMC/Taiwan Disruption) | 12.0% | 0.050 | 0.700 | +0.088 |
| prereq | SEM_014 Nvidia's Arizona-based TSMC factory successfully fabricated — Jensen Huang | 86.1% | 0.700 | 0.050 | +0.070 |
Top outgoing (children)
Predictions THIS node influences
| Kind | Node | Their prob | P(c|s=T) | P(c|s=F) | Δ implied |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| prereq | 240_036 TEPCO's restarted reactor will support 20% of Japan's electr — Peter Diamandis | 34.3% | 0.650 | 0.050 | +0.022 |
| prereq | 230_020 Peter's 14-year-old son Milan will never get a driver's lice — Peter Diamandis | 34.7% | 0.650 | 0.050 | +0.018 |
| prereq | 232_057 First person to arrive on moon/Mars will find bed made by Op — Dave Blundin | 34.8% | 0.600 | 0.050 | -0.009 |
| prereq | 246_016 Dragonfly nuclear-powered octicopter arrives at Titan in 203 — Peter Diamandis | 35.6% | 0.650 | 0.050 | +0.009 |
| prereq | 242_023 World will have 10x more wealth around 2034-2036 — Dave Blundin | 34.2% | 0.600 | 0.050 | -0.003 |
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Beneficiaries (24)
Adverse (6)
Prerequisites (17)
| Type | Pred | Title | Domain | Lag |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| prereq | SEM_011 | Nvidia became the world's first $5 trillion company (late 2025), operating a near-monopoly on advanced AI chips. | Capital Markets | — |
| prereq | SEM_027 | Nvidia Data Center revenue +66% YoY, contributing ~90% of $57B fiscal Q3 revenue; >$4.5T market cap entirely underpinned by AI silicon. | Capital Markets | — |
| prereq | SEM_014 | Nvidia's Arizona-based TSMC factory successfully fabricated cutting-edge semiconductors on US soil for first time in decades (October 2025). | Manufacturing | — |
| prereq | SEM_012 | Nvidia quadrupled chip production output while only doubling human headcount — achieved by deploying AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code) across engineering. | AI/Manufacturing | — |
| prereq | SEM_015 | Nvidia agreed to remit 15% of China chip-sale revenue directly to US government in exchange for reversing specific AI chip export bans. | Policy/Semis | — |
| prereq | 231_002 | Grok 5 launches in March with massive expansion in training set, parameters, and capability. | AI | — |
| prereq | 231_018 | Blitz will switch to next generation model in late March 2026. | AI | — |
| correlate | S_AGI_MID_2029 | AGI mid: Kurzweil 2029 path | agi_general_capability | — |
| correlate | S_AGI_FAST_2027 | AGI fast: drop-in remote worker by 2027-09 | agi_general_capability | — |
| correlate | S_AGI_SLOW_2031 | AGI slow: Schmidt/Hassabis 5-10 year path | agi_general_capability | — |
| correlate | S_NO_RECESSION_5Y | No NBER recession through 2031 | macro_recession | — |
| correlate | S_AGI_WINTER_2036PLUS | AGI delayed: capability plateau or AI winter | agi_general_capability | — |
| killer | TK05 | Rate Regime Persistence (10y > 5% through 2028) | — | — |
| killer | TK04 | Macro Recession 2026-27 (Structural Deleveraging) | — | — |
| killer | TK01 | AGI Capability Plateau (2026-27 Training Stall) | — | — |
| killer | TK02 | AI Compute Supply Shock (TSMC/Taiwan Disruption) | — | — |
| killer | TK03 | AI Regulatory Moratorium (EU/US Capability Freeze) | — | — |
Dependents (5)
| Type | Pred | Title | Domain | Lag |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| prereq | 230_020 | Peter's 14-year-old son Milan will never get a driver's license. | Auto/Transport | — |
| prereq | 246_016 | Dragonfly nuclear-powered octicopter arrives at Titan in 2034. | Space | — |
| prereq | 240_036 | TEPCO's restarted reactor will support 20% of Japan's electric needs by 2040 | Energy | — |
| prereq | 232_057 | First person to arrive on moon/Mars will find bed made by Optimus robots; robots not astronauts lead exploration. | Robotics | — |
| prereq | 242_023 | World will have 10x more wealth around 2034-2036 | Macro/Economy | — |
Expected milestones (1)
| Expected by | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 2031-03-31 | [Capital Markets 2031-03] [231_050] New economy built with AI agents will work around old economy rather than throug [234_014] Top market cap milestones: $10T single stock; $20T; $50T [236_008] Top market cap milestones: $10T single st | pending |
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"context": "This is also a bellweather of a trend that that I think is inevitable now where the new economy built with the AI agents is going to work around the old economy rather than through it. the the pace at which it's evolving and growing is just so much faster than the pace at which the legacy banks, insurance companies, and everything else, they're just not moving",
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