EY: Can AI pay for itself? The true cost of agents and the value needed to justify it

Paper 2 of EY's Total Cost of Agents series: tokens are only about a third of what it costs to run an agent, with subscriptions, platform infrastructure, governance, change management, expected failure and regulation making up the rest. EY analyzes the supply chain that must be financed before a token is consumed and what value must be created to pay for it.