AI Economics: The Agentic Revolution and Reconstruction of Economic Life（2/3）: Economy: How Autonomous Is Rewriting Economics—and Civilization

What happens when autonomous AI agents stop being tools and become economic subjects? This is the question at the heart of AI Economics, a three-volume work that reconstructs economics for a world in which cognition, judgment, creativity, and coordination are externalized into agentic systems.The book argues that the agentic revolution is not another digital upgrade. It is a paradigm shift. The economic subject becomes a triad: the human atom, the agent atom, and the hybrid atom. Production is rebuilt around data, compute, algorithms, models, tokens, and trust capital. Value is created through labor, algorithm, and synergy-not labor alone. Property becomes programmable; trust becomes algorithmic; exchange moves through smart contracts and elastic chains; governance becomes constitutional, with separation of power, human veto, and kill switches.But this transformation is pharmacological: every remedy is also a poison. Algorithmic efficiency brings cognitive dependence; programmable property brings new enclosures; agent autonomy brings logic monopoly and existential risk. The work confronts these tensions through distributive justice-contribution, compensation, participation-and through three scenarios: weak AI, strong AI, and superintelligence. It explores platform capitalism, data colonialism, compute sovereignty, US-China adaptive radiation, and the rise of new-quality industries: compute markets, energy internet, time banking, and DeSci.At its core, AI Economics defends an unexteriorizable human core-suffering, death, love, and the meta-capacity for re-internalization. It offers a vision of the Atomic Commonwealth: a civilization of programmable bonds, just institutions, and human-machine symbiosis. It refuses both techno-utopia and doom. Instead, it issues an invitation: to understand the agentic economy, to engage its governance, and to shape its future. The fire of Prometheus burns on. Will we tend it wisely?