I Shop Therefore I Am: The Artificial Consumer

Can Arti ̄cial Intelligence replace humans not only as producers of goods and content, but alsoas consumers of commodities? AI agents have so far been associated mainly with the productionof goods and content that is, supply which is only one side of economic processes. The otherside is consumption, which drives demand. Is an Arti ̄cial Consumer (AC) conceivable? Canarti ̄cial consumers support a human arti ̄cial hybrid arti ̄cial economy? Could such aneconomy help increase GDP? Such questions require exploration of the connection betweenconsciousness, consumption, value, economics, and AI. This admittedly speculative paper dis-cusses the potential consequences of introducing arti ̄cial consumers. What place would be leftin the economic system for humans if AI took over both supply and demand? The ̄nal frontierfor AI could be our economy: I shop therefore I am.