the Originality Dividend: Why Human Original Intelligence Is Most Valuable Asset in an Age of AI

Everyone is telling you to adapt to AI faster. What if that's exactly the wrong advice? "I recommend this book to all policy makers looking for an alternative approach for balancing AI and human value." - US Representative Don Beyer, >"The Originality Dividend shows leaders how to turn AI from a replacement engine into an amplifier of human originality. Think first, then AI, get better at both." - Justin Fanelli, Chief Technology Officer, Department of the Navy The Replacement Story says AI will replace you. Jonathan Aberman argues that >The Originality Dividend introduces Original Intelligence (OI): the uniquely human capacity to generate novelty - ideas, questions, and judgments that don't already exist in the data AI models have ingested. As generative AI commoditizes the average, competent, and instantly available, OI becomes the scarce asset that decides who wins in an AI economy - not the people and organizations who adopt AI fastest, but the ones who cultivate what AI cannot >Inside, you'll find: - A concrete daily practice - the Originality Loop - for using AI without losing your edge - A Ninety-Day Challenge that baselines, teaches, and re-measures Original Intelligence across a team - A classroom-ready assessment standard that turns AI from a cheating problem into a measure of what a student adds above the machine Drawing on 25 years as a venture capitalist, founder, and educator, Aberman >Part I - The Originality Dividend establishes why Original Intelligence, not >Part II - Transform with Originality is a change-management playbook for leaders, built around the Ninety-Day Challenge and a compact between change >Part III - Educate with Originality takes the same measurement approach >Whether you lead a company, a team, or a classroom, The Originality Dividend gives you a way to measure, teach, and reward the one thing AI cannot generate on its own: genuine human originality.