In his book “The Coal Question” (1865), British economist William Stanley Jevons demonstrates that when technological progress increases the efficiency of a resource, it paradoxically leads to higher overall consumption of that resource due to increased demand, rather than a reduction. In Jevons’s time, this resource was coal, but today, with the advancement of AI, the Jevons Paradox can also apply to human intelligence, as the resource for which demand is rising.