# Machine-Intelligence Demand **Entity class:** Economic concept **Domain:** Artificial intelligence / Compute economics **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition Machine-intelligence demand is the willingness of people and institutions to purchase useful prediction, generation, decision support, automation, or autonomous action. ## Mechanism and significance It converts model capability into infrastructure demand only when intelligence is reliable, affordable, integrated, and valuable enough to displace another cost or create a new market. ## Relationships - **Research dossier:** [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] - **Ontology route:** [[ASI and RSI Timeline Ontology#Model Architecture and Compute Economics|Model Architecture and Compute Economics]] - **Primary fields:** [[Machine Intelligence]] · [[AI Infrastructure]] · [[Compute Race]] - **Adjacent concepts:** [[GPU Secondary Market]] · [[Land-Power-Shell Data Center]] · [[Compute Leasing]] · [[Compute Ownership]] ## Sources and provenance - [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] — immediate source for this node's role in the broadcast research map. ## Evidence boundary The research dossier establishes why this entity or concept belongs in the Moonshots ontology. Time-sensitive organizational, product, policy, and performance claims should be checked against the linked primary source or a current authoritative source before reuse as settled fact.