The Human Intention Economy PROTOCOL SPECIFICATION V1.0: A Protocol for Mandatory AI Consumption of Human-Generated Cognitive Value

Every advanced artificial intelligence system in operation today was trained on human-generated data. That data — text, code, art, conversation, moral judgments — was not purchased; it was scraped. The individuals whose cognitive labor formed the substrate of modern AI received no compensation. As AI systems scale, this structural failure will destabilize the human workforce and concentrate economic value in the hands of those who own compute, not those who generate the intelligence that AI consumes. This paper specifies the Human Intention Economy (HIE): an open protocol that makes AI a mandatory consumer of human-generated cognitive value. HIE introduces the Intellectual Micro-Commodity (IMC)—a cryptographically signed, human-produced unit of meaning, ethics, culture, or intention—that AI systems must purchase to operate in contexts requiring human judgment. The protocol defines an AI Dependency Kernel that enforces this requirement at the inference level, a Global Intention Exchange (G-IEX) for market pricing and settlement, and a Universal Human Dividend (UHD) that distributes a portion of transaction value to every verified human. HIE is built on the Techmanity Identity Protocol (TIP v9.0) and the Personal Stack Web (PSW v1.0). TIP provides verifiable human identity; PSW provides the personal environment where humans produce, store, and license their IMCs. Together, TIP, PSW, and HIE form a complete infrastructure for the first economy in which AI growth directly and structurally funds human prosperity.