Founding researchers and contributors · now open
Maxintelligence asks how far a person can go with instruments they choose, inspect and take off, and still be whole without them. No one can do this yet. The first rung is within reach. Eleven founding seats are open.
The idea
General intelligence already exists. It is us.
A chess engine sees positions no person can. A weather model reads a planet. Neither one is a mind. An instrument makes a person stronger without becoming the person. This program builds and measures those instruments, out in the open.
Founding seats
Each founding researcher gets a numbered seat on the program page, kept for good. Pick a number, then tell us what you'd bring.
Seat 01 is the program founder. Picking a seat starts an application; nothing is final until we've talked.
Open research
Wear one. Build a better one. Repeat. The loop always passes through a person. Claim the rung you want to work on.
Ways in
Bring a measurement, a prototype, or a critique. A sharp critique counts as much as a build.
Research
Propose how to measure whether a tool expands what someone can do while they stay in control, with it on, with it off, and after it comes off.
A first stepPick one task. Define one measure of capability and one measure of control.
Contribute research →Design & engineering
Make a tool that passes all seven tests: it waits, forgets, does one job, reports, can be checked, cannot change itself, and comes off.
A first stepSketch the screen where a person turns it on, checks it, and takes it off.
Contribute a build →Critique
Challenge an assumption. Show where consent could become pressure, or where a design could leave someone out.
A first stepDescribe a case where someone could feel pushed to say yes, and suggest a fix.
Contribute a critique →What you get
This is early. That's the point: the people who start it shape it.
Your number
Founding seats are numbered 01 to 12 and listed on the program page.
Your rung
Each rung shows who is working on it.
Your prediction
Predictions get a fingerprint before a study starts, so nobody can move the goalposts. Not even us.
Your judgement
AI is a tool in the toolbox here. People choose the purpose and keep the final say.
The first study we want to run
Volunteers are measured with it on, with it off, and after it comes off. The prediction is sealed before the first volunteer starts.
Maxintelligence, the short film. Arriving soon.
The invitation is open
A few sentences are enough. Who you are, what pulls you in, where you'd like to help.