Human-Provenance Verification should be Treated as Labor Infrastructure in AI-Saturated Markets

ArXi:2605.03210v1 Announce Type: cross 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 ed much middle-tier knowledge work.