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The aim is to understand how AI-native economies create value through structured systems that manage uncertainty.

May 8, 2026Open Access

The AI-Native Economy: Negative-Entropy Infrastructure, Infinite Specialization, and the New Geography of Work

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The aim is to understand how AI-native economies create value through structured systems that manage uncertainty.
Analyzed the role of negative-entropy infrastructure in various domains such as autonomous vehicles and healthcare.
Used California’s 2026 autonomous vehicle framework as a primary case study.
Developed key concepts like infinite specialization and layered geography of work.
Found that trust and accountability increase when AI systems operate within well-defined governance structures.
Revealed that increasing specialization occurs as AI reduces the cost of cognitive tasks, making expert roles economically viable.
Demonstrated that the geography of work shifts towards a multi-layered system where centralized cognition coexists with localized governance.

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The AI-Native Economy: Negative-Entropy Infrastructure, Infinite Specialization, and the New Geography of WorkCivilization Physics — AI Economics invest in public governance infrastructure such as evaluation testbeds and emergency protocols; promote domain-specific specialization pathways; and preserve interoperability at key infrastructure interfaces. The goal is to support trustworthy deployment rather than unrestricted capability expansion. The paper concludes that the AI-native economy is best understood as an economy of organized certainty production. The decisive competitive advantage lies not in generating intelligence, but in governing it under real conditions. Within the Civilization Physics framework, this work establishes a general principle: as cognition becomes cheaper, the value of systems that reduce uncertainty increases. Sustainable AI economies therefore emerge through the expansion of negative-entropy infrastructure, not through the disappearance of institutional structure. Keywords: AI-Native Economy · Negative-Entropy Infrastructure · Specialization · AI Governance · Autonomous Vehicles · Industrial Organization · Workflow Integration · Cognitive Economics · Infrastructure Systems · Civilization Physics

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Xiangyu Guo (Thu,) studied this question.

www.synapsesocial.com/papers/69fd7fcdbfa21ec5bbf08706 — DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20059801

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