Allaire: AI agents will conduct and transact white-collar work with each other
Jeremy Allaire · How AI Agents Will Transform the Financial System with Circle Co-Founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire · Apr 9, 2026 · at 16:02
Jeremy Allaire, CEO of Circle, explains why autonomous AI agents will emerge as primary economic actors transacting in the real economy.
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“More and more of the actual work that is done in the real economy especially in in, in, you know, kind of the, what we call the white collar economy, but in, in many, many areas of service and delivery and so on, like so much of that is going to be conducted By AI agents. And so AI agents conducting the work, AI agents collaborating with each other, AI agents, you know, consuming services from each other and kind of, you know, purchasing effectively specialized intelligence or output, et cetera.”
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