What Happens When AI Starts Spending Your Money? The next internet customer may not be a person. It could be a piece of software with permission to spend your money. By CryptoDost | Technology & AI Investigation Imagine this. You tell an AI assistant to find a cheaper cloud server for your business. It compares providers, checks specifications, negotiates a suitable plan and purchas inter your card details into a checkout page . A few minutes later, your server is ready. Now imagine that the same assistant does this for 500 different businesses, simultaneously. That is where things get interesting. For years, software has helped people make purchasing decisions. Search engines found products. Recommendation systems suggested services. Chatbots answered questions. But a new category of software is emerging: AI agents that can use tools, communicate with services and carry out multi-step tasks. And once software can participate in a transaction, an entirely different question a...