arxivphysics.soc-phcs.AIcs.CY2026-07-22
When Shippers Become Algorithms: Candidate Exposure, Information Design, and the Concentration of LLM-Mediated Freight Markets
Takahiro Ezaki, Naoto Imura, Katsuhiro Nishinari
Shippers are beginning to delegate carrier selection to large language model (LLM) agents. We ask what such delegation does to a freight matching market, and which platform design choices contain it. We carried out agent-based simulations in which fifty shipper agents, built on c…