AI Latency Tax
Latency as a structural, distributive externality in intelligent systems — invisible, cumulative, and unevenly borne.
Frameworks
AI Waiting Tax
The hidden psychological and cognitive cost of waiting for AI responses — idle time as suspended attention, not free time.
Expression Distortion Cost
Performance loss when expressed input to AI diverges from the user's underlying goals, constraints, and preferences.
Judgment-as-Product
Under generative abundance, value completes through accountable human judgment — not at the moment of AI generation.