Informational Autoimmunity and the Cost of Ungoverned AI

Field notes

The working paper models LLM deployment as a mismatch between the cost of producing information and the capacity to verify it. Its proposed mechanism includes a “Verification Tax,” a Jevons-type increase in attention demand, and five hypothesized forms of human cognitive-capital displacement. The paper also outlines a measurement protocol for decision-velocity decay and says that protocol is being instrumented in live organizational engagements, while cautioning that its quantitative magnitudes remain hypotheses rather than findings.