Decision Authority Economy: How AI Reshapes Judgement, Systems, and Economic Power

Decision Authority Economy explores a fundamental shift emerging in the age of artificial intelligence: What happens when AI no longer simply delivers information - but increasingly participates in how judgement itself is formed?For decades, the digital economy operated around attention. Platforms competed for clicks, visibility, engagement, and time spent. But AI is beginning to reshape something deeper beneath those systems: The process through which decisions emerge.Introducing concepts including: - Decision Mediation Layer (DML) - Decision Authority Economy (DAE) - Judgement as a Service (JaaS) - AI-to-AI (A2A) interaction - Pre-Decision Structuring - Attribution CollapseThis book examines how AI increasingly mediates comparison, interpretation, filtering, and decision preparation - changing not only technology itself, but the structure of economic power.For strategists, researchers, founders, marketers, and anyone interested in the future of AI-mediated systems, this work offers a conceptual framework for understanding a world where influence may no longer depend primarily on attention, but on the ability to organize judgement itself.