Agentic AI can perform tasks, collaborate and pursue complex objectives autonomously over time with minimal human oversight, therefore automating a wide range of activities. This automation could lead to systems independently negotiating prices, overseeing the management of supply chains, executing transactions and interacting with other AI agents. These could bring significant potential benefits for consumers and businesses but could raise challenges for competition policy.
In December 2026, the OECD will hold a discussion to consider the implications for competition policy of agentic AI, including on consumer choice, market intermediation and the delegation of purchasing decisions to AI agents, as well as the adequacy of existing competition law frameworks.
