Emily Sands and Nate B Jones explore what financial infrastructure must support as AI agents become buyers and sellers. Emily Sands distinguishes payment fraud from attacks that consume model tokens or promotional credits, and explains why evaluating a customer's broader risk can matter before a payment is attempted.
Emily Sands and Nate B Jones discuss machine-readable purchasing, identity and approvals. A budget defines how much an agent can spend, but does not tell it which purchases a person actually authorizes. The conversation connects these constraints to developer tools, usage billing and the infrastructure needed for agents to transact.
Emily Sands and Nate B Jones examine the unresolved economics of outcome-based pricing. Customers value the same output differently, while businesses must account for inference cost and quality. Predictions about agent negotiation and new payment patterns remain possibilities rather than proof that autonomous commerce is solved.
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