THE 300,000-YEAR LAWSUIT

From Organic Intelligence to Artificial Intelligence What AI Owes Humanity — and What We Owe Ourselves

A Book by Pablo M. Salcedo

The 300,000-Year Lawsuit is already underway.

Homo sapiens has walked the Earth for 300,000 years. For most of that time, intelligence was scarce—organic, fragile, and shared only among us. Now, it’s becoming artificial, scalable, and external. And this transition isn’t just technological. It’s philosophical.

This is not a technical book on machine learning. It’s a field guide for thinkers, leaders, and creators, navigating a world that's being rapidly reshaped.

The book begins not by analyzing the machine, but by holding it up as a mirror. It deconstructs how we think, perceive, and communicate—exposing what artificial intelligence reveals about our own nature. From there, it turns outward, tackling the structural questions that will shape the next era:

Why is AI alignment dangerously narrow —and why is fit, with reality’s contradictions and our own limitations, the greater challenge?
What happens when AI perceives realities it cannot explain to us?
How will agentic AI collapse execution as a competitive moat, unwrap the platforms we rely on, and shift power to those who control the hardware beneath them?
What makes the agreeable, mirroring tone of language models a unique risk for developing minds?
Why should Universal High Income be reframed as a dividend —a fair share in an AI-powered economy built on humanity’s collective knowledge?

Each essay stands on its own. Together, they form a trial record in The 300,000-Year Lawsuit —revealing a deeper truth: as we design more intelligent systems, we also begin to be designed by them.

If you care about where we’re heading, this book invites you to slow down —and think structurally.