What Patrick Collison thinks about AI agents
Co-founder and CEO of Stripe and co-founder of the Arc Institute. Keeps a personal site of reading lists, open questions and notes on scientific progress and how research is funded.
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7 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Patrick Collison has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsit shows how agents may be able to accelerate discovery in vast combinatoric spaces
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Our readingPersonal agents will probably make people somewhat more rational in how they deal with companies.
Their wordsThanks to personal agents, we will probably get somewhat more rational in how we engage with companies.
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Their wordsWell, certain kinds of price discrimination will work less well (how do coupons work if every agent hunts fastidiously for them?), and certain kinds of customer cross-subsidy will change (today, people who forget to cancel subscriptions subsidize those who don't).
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Their wordsPersonal agents will, I think, act as a kind of structural subsidy for product quality.
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Their wordsToday, most people have very limited ability to aggregate and integrate such data, but agents will have insatiable thirst for such signals.
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Their wordsHow will the nature and value of this routing change in a world of personal agents? I don't know the answer, but I think that the effects might be pretty big.
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Their wordsMuch of what I'm writing hinges on the assumption that personal agents will be on the consumer's side. I suspect that that will be the winning strategy, but whether it's true, and what it means to be true, involves a lot of other questions.