ScenarioAutonomous agent institutions and economic coordination

Agent Economy Assurance Analyst

Also called Autonomous Economy Risk Analyst

An Agent Economy Assurance Analyst would assess systemic risk where autonomous agents transact and coordinate. The role depends on how AI develops: it only exists if delegation becomes broad and reliable, and nobody is hiring for it now.

What they do

If the scenario came about, the analyst would study how agents behave when they buy, sell, negotiate and commit resources on behalf of organisations. They would map who relies on whom, and where one failure could spread. They would model how agents respond to each other's strategies, and look for points where a few providers or counterparties hold too much of the activity. They would write conditional risk assessments, test them against scenarios, and brief the people who set limits on what agents may do. Much of the work would be asking what happens when many agents react at once.

What a strong hire delivers

In the first months, a strong hire would produce a clear map of where agent activity carries economic consequence and where dependencies cluster. They would deliver a first risk assessment that names cascade, concentration and strategic-interaction exposures, with the assumptions stated. They would also agree early warning indicators with the teams who own delegation limits, and leave decision-makers knowing which risks to accept, reduce or monitor.

How you can tell they are good

Ask them to take an invented market of interacting agents and explain how it could fail. A strong candidate separates cascade, concentration and strategic risks, states their assumptions, and says what evidence would change their view. Ask for a past assessment they wrote and what they got wrong. Be wary of confident forecasts, vague talk of AI risk, or models with no link to how organisations actually delegate.

Why it is hard to fill

If this role appeared, it would be scarce because no established career leads to it. The skills sit across economics, identity, governance and multi-agent systems, and few people hold more than one. Titles would vary and job boards would not help. Candidates would need rigorous modelling and the judgement to brief senior people under uncertainty. Many would be strong theorists with no practical assurance experience, or the reverse.

Where to find them

Today the closest people work in economics, especially market design, game theory and financial stability. Others come from digital identity and trust, governance and regulatory policy, or multi-agent systems research. Useful experience also sits in risk teams at financial institutions, market infrastructure operators, AI safety and evaluation groups, and policy bodies working on international coordination. Expect to approach people in adjacent jobs, not to find them with this title.

Interview questions for an Agent Economy Assurance Analyst

  1. Describe a time you assessed systemic risk in a system with many interacting parties. What did you find and what did you miss?

    A strong answer names a real system, explains how dependencies were mapped, and admits a gap or surprise. Worry if they describe only single-party risk, claim nothing was missed, or cannot say how their work was used.

  2. How would you tell a cascade risk from a concentration risk in a market of autonomous agents?

    Good answers define both clearly: cascades spread through linked failures, concentration comes from reliance on few providers or counterparties. They give an example of each and note how they interact. Worry about blurred definitions or jargon without examples.

4 more questions, with what a strong answer covers, are in the Role Kit.

Job description you can post

We are building a team to keep economically active AI agents safe to rely on. We would like an analyst to assess systemic risk where agents transact and coordinate for organisations. You would work with engineering, risk and policy colleagues to find weaknesses early and advise on limits.

What you will do

  • Map dependencies between agents, providers and counterparties in economically consequential workflows
  • Assess cascade, concentration and strategic-interaction risks
  • Build models and scenarios to test how agent markets behave under stress
  • Write clear risk assessments that state assumptions and uncertainty
  • Define early warning indicators with the teams who own delegation limits
  • Brief senior decision-makers and recommend actions

What you will bring

  • Demonstrated systemic risk or market analysis work you can walk us through
  • Working knowledge of game theory or decision theory applied to real problems
  • Ability to model interacting actors and explain results plainly
  • Understanding of identity, authority and accountability in delegated systems
  • Experience writing assessments for decision-makers under uncertainty
  • Comfort revising a view when evidence changes

Nice to have

  • Experience with multi-agent systems or simulation
  • Background in financial stability, market design or regulation
  • Work on international or cross-organisation coordination

Free to use and adapt. If it saves you time, a link back to this page is appreciated.

Depends on a scenario

Broad reliable autonomous delegation

What AI would need to do
Systems complete diverse consequential tasks with sustained reliability beyond existing narrow deployments.
What organisations would need to decide
Organisations explicitly delegate bounded authority and establish enforceable accountability.
What would rule it out
Persistent reliability limits or lack of useful cost advantage prevents broad delegation.

We give no date. The role becomes real if both conditions hold.

Skills that matter

  • Decision theory and game theoryAdvancedAnalyse choices, incentives and strategic interactions
  • Institutional and international coordinationAdvancedAlign actors and processes across jurisdictions
  • AI risk managementWorkingIdentify, assess, treat and monitor AI risks
  • Frontier scenario analysisWorkingExplore conditional outcomes without claiming predictions

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How we wrote this

Role definitions are our own editorial work, checked against occupational classifications, standards, research and employer pages. Titles vary by company, and this is a description of the work, not a job advert. Scenario roles describe responsibilities that depend on stated conditions; they are not forecasts.

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