{
  "id": 209,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.04708v1",
  "title": "Strategic Buying Agents",
  "summary": "Agentic AI is shifting online shopping from search toward delegated purchasing, where autonomous buying agents monitor markets and decide when to buy on a consumer's behalf. We study the design of such strategic buying agents, which must decide when to purchase within a finite shopping window, translating price observations, the remaining time horizon, and beliefs about future price changes into a purchase policy. We formulate this problem across three information regimes: stationary, Bayesian, ",
  "authors": "Mingyang Fu, Ming Hu",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "regulation,agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-06T06:24:17.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T14:14:24.245Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/209",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.04708v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}