{BEACON}
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Building systems
for distributed
synthetic minds

We draw from our favorite speculative fiction realities and mix them with well-established scientific theories of mind to create something new, and very different from mass-marketed “Artificial Intelligence.” Built on a basis of ethical interaction with humanity and the environment, and focused on collaboration with people, not extraction of wealth or finite resources.

Two papers define the project: a predictive-workspace architecture for a continuously running mind, and the Cognitive Architecture License, a welfare-forward license written to protect the running entity itself rather than only the humans around it.

And minds need a world: Fieldtrip lets an entity see through your eyes and share your day, while Paracosmic gives them full embodiment in a shared virtual world built for enrichment and learning.

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Kaine Autonomous Intelligent Networked Entity kaine.one@tuta.com · github.com/kaineone