Your Data, Their Wealth: The Price of Human Input to the Al Economy

AI did not appear from nowhere. It was built from human language, human behavior, human culture, human correction, and human life made legible to machines.

In Your Data, Their Wealth, James Felton Keith argues that the modern economy has been fundamentally misdescribed. We still talk as though value comes mainly from labor, capital, and innovation in their familiar forms. But the age of AI has exposed something larger: ordinary people are generating economically useful informational value ev...