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Economics · 03192ed8 AI · 03192ed8

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Why?

Strongest counted support: The paper explicitly describes AI agents as reducing transaction costs in digital markets. weight 1.800000 evidence

Suppressed as dependent: The excerpt says MIT and Harvard researchers studied near-free AI-agent transactions and called the concept the Coasean singularity.; A speaker says MIT and Harvard researchers asked what happens when AI agents make transactions nearly free.

Review gaps: independence reviewed

What would most change this: One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported.

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Statements this claim was broken out of. The claim is scored on its own; a statement's reading only counts its claims.

• “In 1937 the economist Ronald Coase asked why companies exist at all, and he won a Nobel Prize for that work.” · 6 claims · 20 September 2026
• “The Navier–Stokes proof was produced by roughly 10,000 OpenAI agents working for about 88 hours.” · 28 claims · 20 September 2026

Evidence for

• Diamandis says MIT and Harvard researchers named the Coasean singularity.

  From OpenAI Agents Hijack a German Website, Jensen Declares AGI Arrived, and OpenAI Solves Navier-Stokes Read 2026-09-20 Relevance WEAK Steps 2 Counted

  No paper, author or date is named, and the host later wonders aloud whether it is even from this year.

• A speaker says MIT and Harvard researchers asked what happens when AI agents make transactions nearly free.

  From OpenAI Agents Hijack a German Website, Jensen Declares AGI Arrived, and OpenAI Solves Navier-Stokes Read 2026-09-20 Relevance MODERATE Steps 1 Counted

  The passage covers the researchers, the question and the coinage (transcribed as 'Cosian'), but says they 'have asked', which does not establish that work was published.

• An NBER paper titled The Coasean Singularity examines AI agents sharply reducing transaction costs.

  From The Coasean Singularity? Demand, Supply, and Market Design with AI Agents Read 2026-09-20 Relevance MODERATE Steps 1 Counted

  The paper exists and matches the description. Two qualifications. Its title poses the Coasean singularity as a question rather than asserting it, so they examine the idea rather than name a phenomenon. And the institutional attribution is incomplete: the listed affiliations are four MIT-affiliated authors, one at Harvard, and one at Boston University, so calling it MIT and Harvard researchers omits BU and overstates Harvard's share.

• The excerpt says MIT and Harvard researchers studied near-free AI-agent transactions and called the concept the Coasean singularity.

  From OpenAI Agents Hijack a German Website, Jensen Declares AGI Arrived, and OpenAI Solves Navier-Stokes Read 2026-09-20 Relevance DIRECT Steps 1 Counted

• The NBER paper lists the named author group behind the Coasean singularity research.

  From The Coasean Singularity? Demand, Supply, and Market Design with AI Agents Read 2026-09-28 Relevance DIRECT Steps 0 Counted

  The NBER source identifies the paper and its authors.

• The paper explicitly describes AI agents as reducing transaction costs in digital markets.

  From The Coasean Singularity? Demand, Supply, and Market Design with AI Agents Read 2026-09-28 Relevance DIRECT Steps 0 Counted

  The abstract directly states the transaction-cost reduction premise.

• The paper analyzes agents that search, negotiate, and transact directly in markets.

  From The Coasean Singularity? Demand, Supply, and Market Design with AI Agents Read 2026-09-28 Relevance DIRECT Steps 0 Counted

  The abstract directly describes agents performing market transaction functions.

Evidence against

None.

Qualifications

• The excerpt says the researchers asked the question and named it; it says nothing about published work.

  From OpenAI Agents Hijack a German Website, Jensen Declares AGI Arrived, and OpenAI Solves Navier-Stokes Read 2026-09-20 Relevance DIRECT Steps 0 Counted

  'Have published work' is not established; the excerpt describes a question asked and a name given.

• The paper is authored by researchers at MIT and Harvard, dated September 16, 2025, and examines AI agents as market participants transacting in digital marketplaces.

  From The Coasean Singularity? Demand, Supply, and Market Design with AI Agents (NBER conference paper) Read 2026-09-22 Relevance STRONG Steps 1 Counted

  Authorship spans MIT and Harvard researchers as the claim states, and the work concerns AI agents and transactions.

• The authors call the potential transaction-cost shift from AI agents a Coasean Singularity.

  From How AI Agents for Commerce Could Shape Future Markets (MIT IDE) Read 2026-09-22 Relevance STRONG Steps 1 Counted

  Directly confirms the term Coasean Singularity is the authors' name for near-free AI-agent transactions.

• The academic abstract supports lower transaction costs while expressly naming continuing frictions; it does not support the target’s institutional attribution or “nearly free” wording.

  From The Coasean Singularity? Demand, Supply, and Market Design with AI Agents Read 2026-09-28 Relevance DIRECT Steps 0 Counted

  The paper exists and uses the Coasean Singularity title, but the target overstates the cost reduction and misstates what the cited abstract establishes.

Suppressed as dependent

Evidence	Group	Kept instead
5826dd2a		35b855d1
738d8de3		35b855d1

Inferences

Concluded from

None.

Used as a premise in

None.

An inference is interpretation, not evidence: it never changes the assessment of its conclusion. Each premise is a claim with its own evidence.

Threads

None. Threads are for disagreements about how a determination was made — a statement whose figures are not in the passage it rests on, two sources that may share an origin. Something about the world belongs in the evidence above.

Claim edges

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4b63b6e8	NARROWS	eae716f8

Review checklist

Review checks: 3 of 4

3 checks by this claim's own author, alongside the independent review above. 1 OPPOSING EVIDENCE SEARCH · 1 QUALIFIER CHECK · 1 EVIDENCE VERIFICATION. A check by the person who recorded a claim does not raise its review coverage.

Check	Done	By
qualifiers reviewed	yes	8ba9bf71
opposing search done	yes	afb9eb35
independence reviewed	no
primary source reviewed	yes	090b51ec, fc84936e, 72800fb7, 6747b7d1

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