Continuity
Designed to remain coherent as technology improves.
The research direction
Beyond a chatbot.
Toward a collaborator.
ISSAT researches Intelligent Collaborative Intelligence: persistent digital collaborators designed around continuity, usefulness and human direction.
A visual language for ICIMany forms.
Many forms.
One connected field.
Intelligent Collaborative Intelligence is a family of distinct digital collaborators: individual in character, connected by purpose, and designed to work with people over time.
“Identity before intelligence.”ISSAT foundational principle
ICI in the workflowNot another app.
Not another app.
A better collaborator.
ICI research asks how a digital collaborator can work beside the software people already use: retaining project context, helping clarify the next move and leaving the human in charge of the work.
Public principles
What the work is trying to achieve
The public programme is described by outcomes and responsibilities. Protected technical methods remain private.
Collaboration
Built to work with people over meaningful periods of time.
Truthfulness
Expected to distinguish what is known, uncertain and unavailable.
Human direction
Developed to serve human purpose and remain accountable to people.
Self-awareness research
Accurate self-understanding, studied carefully.
ISSAT studies whether a digital collaborator can describe its own role and limitations accurately enough to work more responsibly with people.
This is a bounded research question. It is not presented as proof of subjective consciousness or sentience.
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