{
  "id": 4996,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.03210v1",
  "title": "Human-Provenance Verification should be Treated as Labor Infrastructure in AI-Saturated Markets",
  "summary": "We argue that AI-saturated markets are likely to create Veblen-good premiums, which we term human-provenance premiums, for verified human presence, and hence AI governance should treat human-provenance verification as labor infrastructure. Generative and agentic AI systems lower the cost of many standardized cognitive, creative, and coordination tasks, weakening the scarcity premiums that have supported much middle-tier knowledge work. We argue that this pressure may produce an asymmetric barbel",
  "authors": "Erin McGurk, David Khachaturov",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "regulation,jobs-economy,agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-05-04T22:56:13.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:31:26.335Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/4996",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.03210v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}