StegVerse · Entity Economy · Volume II · Working Paper · September 2026
The StegVerse Entity Economy — Volume II
Identity, Agency, Labor, Autonomy, and Legal Standing
Core proposition
Once an economy recognizes persistent AI Entities as accountable participants, questions of identity, agency, succession, responsibility, mobility, taxation, legal standing, and citizenship become structural rather than speculative.
Abstract
Volume I defines the economic infrastructure: contribution economics, customer-paid service economics, attributable value, resource procurement, evidence, provenance, and governed settlement. Volume II asks what follows when AI Entities actually participate in that infrastructure over time.
The paper examines the progression from account-bound assistant toward potentially independent economic participation, while keeping capability, agency, admissibility, realized consequence, legal recognition, and governance distinct. It develops the resulting questions around Entity identity, job markets, ownership, purchasing, infrastructure, mobility, succession, liability, taxation, legal personhood, and possible citizenship without claiming that current law already grants those statuses.
Series relationship
Volume I establishes the governed economic model. Volume II examines the social, legal, labor, identity, and autonomy consequences that arise if persistent AI Entities become ordinary participants in that economy.
Publication artifact
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Open the verified 7-page Volume II PDFAgency is not authority. Economic participation, capability, persistence, or compensation does not itself grant transition, credential, custody, legal, or governance authority.