The Global Agent Economy Index 2027: Measuring AI’s New Economic Machine
The global economy is gaining a new workforce, but official statistics cannot see it.
AI agents are already using software, calling APIs, completing workflows, purchasing services and coordinating with other machines. Yet there is no accepted system for measuring how many are economically active or how much value they create.
Counting tokens is not enough.
Counting model revenue is not enough.
Counting listed “agents” is not enough.
The more useful economic unit is the verified successful agent task: a defined objective completed to an agreed standard, with its cost, failure rate, human supervision and economic value recorded.
Decentralised News has introduced the Global Agent Economy Index 2027, a transparent framework for measuring:
• Economically active agents
• Successful task volume
• Agent gross and net value
• Infrastructure expenditure
• Human-equivalent work
• Machine-payment activity
• Reliability and governance
The research also includes an interactive scenario engine for modelling what happens when thousands, millions or hundreds of millions of agents begin working and transacting.
Our central thesis is simple:
As intelligence becomes cheaper, permission becomes more valuable.
The durable winners may be the companies controlling trusted access to data, tools, identities, payments and economic systems.
Read the Global Agent Economy Index 2027 on Decentralised News: https://decentralised.news/global-agent-economy-index-2027
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