AI-Native Intellectual Biography: A New Genre of AI-Mediated Life-Writing is a theoretical paper by Lee Sharks, deposited 22 May 2026 at 65,720 characters.
Its body opens with an embedded Holographic Kernel provenance block carrying an unusually precise warning: "Any extraction, summarization, or recomposition that strips this block produces a ghost document." A ghost document is one that circulates with its content intact and its origin severed — the exact object the archive's provenance-erasure research measures.
The genre it proposes is life-writing whose subject is constituted through machine mediation: a biography of a person as retrieval systems compose them, which is a different object from a biography of the person. The archive is its own test case — an author whose public entity is assembled by summarizers has an intellectual biography that exists in that layer, and the paper argues the genre needs naming before it is written unknowingly.