Issue 05 Cover Essay
AI & Society
The AI Latency Tax: Hidden Costs and Temporal Inequality
Latency is not merely a technical delay. It is a structural externality — uneven, cumulative, and hard to see.
Issue 05 May 2026 The Latency Tax
The Latency Tax
Latency is a structural externality — uneven, cumulative, and hard to see.
Source research
The AI Latency Tax: Hidden Costs and Temporal Inequality in Intelligent Systems · SSRN 6535458