Does Rank Still Matter? Position Bias When AI Agents Shop on Our Behalf

arXiv:2608.22697 · cs.AI, econ.GN, q-fin.EC · Submitted 2026-08-24 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, econ.GN, q-fin.EC

Submitted: 2026-08-24

Updated: 2026-09-08

Terminology

• AI Agents — 29× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 13× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Agentic AI — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agentic Search — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Fidelity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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