Anton Hantel
Anton Hantel is in the MIT MBA class of 2027 and wrote the initial agent squared paper, When Biased Agents Trade. He designed the experimental protocol and ran the first benchmark of how frontier LLM agents negotiate, bid, and trade against each other. Before MIT he spent several years at BCG in Germany and Austria, much of it in commerce and the platform economy, and that is where he started wondering what changes once agents rather than people do the buying. An earlier version of the work grew out of Cass Sunstein's behavioral economics seminar at Harvard Law School. He co-authors agent squared with Jono Hart.
Work
Anton works on agent squared, an independent benchmark for how frontier AI agents behave in commercial transactions with each other, alongside the research paper and the Priors essays.