Shorting Human Origin

AI, Scarcity, and the Fight for the Source of Intelligence

In the rush to build ever-larger AI systems, the world made a hidden trade: long compute, short human origin. Shorting Human Origin argues that the real scarcity in the next AI economy is not chips, scale, or model size, but authentic human intelligence — expert judgment, provenance, lived experience, moral accountability, and trust. From model collapse and the data famine to benchmark theater and the infrastructure trap, this book maps the wall facing the AI boom and the architecture that comes after it.