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The Emergence of One-Person Companies as Human–AI Socio-Technical Systems: Evidence from AI Ecosystem Density in Chinese Cities

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) now allows a single founder, working with a cluster of AI agents as “digital employees,” to run a venture that once required a team. We call this form the one-person company (OPC) and treat it as a human–AI socio-technical system with a “1...