The Proof Economy

As artificial intelligence makes creation abundant, proof becomes the new scarcity.

Official response and confirmed impact

Across my career, from medicine and life sciences into structural biology, higher education and later semiconductor verification, I have kept meeting the same fundamental challenge in different forms.

Scientists speak of reproducibility. Physicians of evidence. Educators of understanding. Engineers of verification. Beneath the terminology lies a common objective: establishing confidence before action.

As a founder, I use AI daily. It drafts, summarises, explains, and occasionally surprises me with the elegance of what it produces.

It has changed the pace at which I think and act as an executive.

Yet the more I use it, the more I notice a quiet friction: The output looks finished. It reads confidently.

But before every decision that matters, I still have to ask: do I trust this enough to act on it?

That question, once asked mainly in the laboratory or the verification lab, is now asked in the boardroom, the classroom and the consulting room.