AI-augmented human intelligence called cognitive symbionts
Original title: From Autonomous Agents to Cognitive Symbionts: Toward AI-Augmented Human Intelligence
Cognitive symbionts are proposed as lifelong embedded AI companions that close the gap between a person's full knowledge and working memory.
The paper introduces AI-augmented human intelligence (AHI) and the concept of cognitive symbionts: systems that sense, remember, understand, act, and think with humans in real time. It frames the design around a symbiosis loop of sensing, keeping context, understanding situations, living alongside, acting for and thinking with the person, and continuous learning. The paradigm addresses risks from covert assistance and societal pressure to adopt the technology, treating governance as part of the design.
- Cognitive gap between full knowledge and working memory
- Symbiosis loop of sensing, keeping, understanding, acting, thinking, growing
- Personal runtime and trust as enclosing boundaries
- New risks from covert assistance and adoption pressure
From the original article
1 min read at arxiv.orgFor a decade, progress in artificial intelligence has been measured by how much a machine can do on its own. Large foundation models now write code and run multistep tasks, and personal agents act on a person's behalf.
By Hao Fei · arxiv.org
A short excerpt; the article and its images belong to the publisher. Summary, key facts and assessment above are AI-written from the article and can be wrong.