The Claim Architecture Transition: Transformative AI, Real Claim Closure, and General Equilibrium Beyond Wage-Based Distribution

This economics theory working paper defines a claim architecture for analyzing how welfare-bearing households remain connected to social output when wage income ceases to be broadly distributed. It derives a CES real-claim phase condition, a power-law claim-closure theorem, and an abundance-exclusion divergence result. The analysis is a structural stress test, not an unemployment forecast or a prescription of one political-economic system. TA-TR-2026-14, version 1.1, first public DOI edition. Human author of record and responsible depositor: Hongju Liu. Substantial assistance from OpenAI ChatGPT (GPT-5.6 Sol) for literature search, mathematical checking, numerical illustration, drafting, document preparation, and publication QA is disclosed. Not peer reviewed. Targeted prior-art search does not certify global priority. CC BY 4.0 applies to newly written material to the extent rights are held. Cited third-party works retain their own rights. DOI registration, checksums and public byte readback do not establish truth, peer review, policy superiority, exhaustive originality, or forecast accuracy.