Declaration on the Use of Artificial Intelligence and Statement of Intellectual Property Status

This paper presents a comprehensive Declaration on the Use of Artificial Intelligence and a Statement of Intellectual Property Status for scholarly works in the Homo Novus series. It details the author’s structured collaboration with multiple frontier AI systems, including Grok (xAI) as the primary assistant, under direct human oversight and supervision. By transparently documenting the specific AI tools employed, the typical human-directed workflow, representative prompt exemplars, and the distinct intellectual property statuses of human-authored content versus AI-generated elements, this declaration promotes emerging standards of academic integrity, reproducibility, and ethical transparency as of May 6, 2026. The document illustrates how thoughtful human-AI symbiosis—enabled by AI literacy and literate prompt engineering—delivers substantial intelligence amplification (described by Timothy Leary as I2) along with remarkable gains in research efficiency, synthesis capability, drafting speed, and creative output. It further underscores that AI assistance is now ubiquitous in academic and creative endeavors, even when not explicitly declared with this level of detail. By modeling full disclosure, the paper contributes to the ongoing conversation about responsible AI integration while advancing the Homo Novus vision of an abundance economy powered by unlimited intelligence, labor, energy, and space-faring capacity.