Semantic Economy

This domain examines the economic, contractual, and liability structures that emerge when semantics becomes executable and externally auditable.

The central question is:

Under what conditions can semantic commitments function as economic units—bearing cost, risk, value, and responsibility?

The domain studies:

1. Economic Preconditions

  • When do semantic operations incur cost?
  • What forms of risk and externality arise in semantic execution?
  • How does an economy form when agents delegate, transact, and coordinate through structured semantics?

2. Accountability Structures

  • Semantic Ledger as a unit of responsibility
  • Cost propagation across execution chains
  • Multi-agent liability allocation
  • Risk boundaries for human–machine delegation

3. Value Formation

  • How semantics produces measurable outcomes
  • Pricing semantic execution and commitments
  • Market formation for semantic capabilities
  • Semantic credit, semantic insurance, semantic compliance

4. Institutional Interfaces

  • Relation to AI Act, Liability Directive, governance systems
  • How semantic accountability integrates with enterprise, legal, and regulatory architectures
  • Conditions for cross-jurisdiction semantic markets

This domain ties together semantics, economics, and responsibility into a coherent analytic framework.
It provides the economic layer that enables semantic systems to operate within real institutions, markets, and governance environments.