AI Agents May Cut Humans from Economic Activity: Tom Lee Sees Crypto as Safeguard

Tom Lee, Head of Research at Fundstrat, believes AI agents could eventually cut humans out of all economic activity entirely. According to Lee, as AI becomes capable enough to innovate faster by communicating exclusively with other agents, it may find humans more of an obstacle than a participant.

'They might even decide to close humans entirely from communications,' Lee said. 'I think you're going to have a lot more people talking about the necessity of having a crypto blockchain layer that sits in the middle of all this activity.'

Lee argues that programmable blockchain transactions are the only tool that can keep humans in the loop once autonomous agents start making economic decisions at machine speed.