Gordon Ritter: who owns the intelligence economy?

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The rules governing the AI economy are being written by default. Back in June, I argued that the AI doomers are incorrectly counting jobs when they should be counting traces. Traces are what people leave behind on every system they touch: corrections, judgment calls, reasoning that closed the deal, workarounds not found in a manual. They are among a company’s most valuable assets. So, who owns them? No one has decided yet, and that window won’t stay open long. Take the growth of radio in the 1920s. American broadcasters staked out radio frequencies faster than the law could follow. By the time Congress passed the Radio Act of 1927, control had already solidified. The Communications Act of 1934 ratified it. Radio was a bureaucratic battle about who owned the airwaves. The resource today is human intelligence: how people reason, decide, and create. If we treat it as something to extract rather than cultivate, we drain the source every future breakthrough depends on. Companies building…

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