Underwriting the Agent Economy: The Blueprint for an AI Insurance Stack

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.11999v2
• Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2026 02:43:14 GMT
• Title: Underwriting the Agent Economy: The Blueprint for an AI Insurance Stack
• Abstract summary: The emerging AI agent economy, projected to handle trillions of dollars in transactions by 2030, looks to be the next such development.<n>Yet insurers' exposure to AI agent risk currently sits largely unpriced across existing insurance lines.<n>Insurability is trending the wrong way; AI agent capabilities appear to be outpacing reliability.<n>This report argues that affirmative AI coverage with limits in the billions is achievable by 2030, but only with industry-wide coordination.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: From maritime trade to commercial nuclear power, insurance has been the enabler of major economic and technological developments by pricing risk, limiting downside, and spreading best practices. The emerging AI agent economy, projected to handle trillions of dollars in transactions by 2030, looks to be the next such development. Yet insurers' exposure to AI agent risk currently sits largely unpriced across existing insurance lines; between this silent coverage and growing exclusions, coverage is not fit for purpose. Furthermore, insurability is trending the wrong way: AI agent capabilities appear to be outpacing reliability, leading to rising incident severity; concentration among a few foundation model providers threatens correlated losses; and traditional actuarial modeling will struggle to keep pace with a technology evolving as rapidly as frontier AI. This report argues that affirmative AI coverage with limits in the billions is achievable by 2030, but only with industry-wide coordination. Drawing on successful historical precedents such as Underwriters Laboratories, the Closed Claims Project, and others, we lay out an eight-component AI insurance stack spanning incident data collection, catastrophe modeling, standards, contract design, risk selection, pricing, monitoring, and claims management. Building out this infrastructure is what will enable insurers to cover and manage AI agent risk sustainably and at scale. Finally, we discuss coverage for catastrophic risk from frontier AI ("AI CAT"), including CBRN, critical infrastructure collapse, and loss of control scenarios. Addressing these tail risks will require purpose-built instruments, potentially including a frontier model developer mutual, catastrophe bonds, bespoke liability regimes, and government backstops.

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