Your Data, Their Wealth

Who Gets Paid When Humans Teach Machines?

James Felton Keith speaking on stage with a headset microphone in Copenhagen.

AI may automate labor, but it still depends on human information, knowledge, culture, judgment, behavior, corrections, experience, and data. This keynote asks who owns and gets paid for the human input that trains machine intelligence, turning the AI debate from novelty into economics, rights, labor, and institutional strategy.

If humans provide a factor of production to AI, who owns and gets paid for that value?

Audience Outcomes

  • See data as labor, not exhaust.
  • Map human input across AI value chains.
  • Understand data ownership, digital rights, and data unions as economic questions.
  • Equip leaders to discuss AI value distribution without hype.

Who This Is For

  • AI conferences
  • Technology companies
  • Labor organizations
  • Universities
  • Legal associations
  • Policy organizations
  • HR executives

Relevant Credentials

  • Author of Your Data, Their Wealth
  • Author of Data Is Labor
  • Data Union pioneer
  • Published AI economics scholarship

Directly connected to the 2026 book Your Data, Their Wealth: The Price of Human Input to the AI Economy.

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