Independent research
Research Notes
Independent research into personal AI, digital identity and wearable technology. These notes describe exploratory work and prototypes, not products. They are separate from PENWORTHIA and will change as the research develops.
Personal augmented intelligence
Today's AI assistants retain little about the people who use them, and what they do retain usually sits with the provider. This research explores a personal intelligence foundation, controlled by the individual, that could organise memories, knowledge, experiences and authorised personal context, and make them available across devices and AI systems.
What is being explored
- Authorised capture of conversations, notes and personal context.
- Retrieval and organisation of personal memory over time.
- Interaction across devices and AI models without dependence on a single provider.
Open questions
- Consent, including for other people captured incidentally.
- Retention and deletion.
- Provenance of stored information.
- Which AI models may access what, and when.
- Portability between providers and devices.
- Where the boundaries of personal AI representation should sit.
Design intentions
The long-term research could involve knowledge, memories, communication patterns and aspects of a person's identity. That is far more sensitive than ordinary personal data, so privacy, security, consent and individual control are being considered from the ground up rather than added later.
- The individual decides what is captured and retained.
- Stored information can be inspected, corrected and deleted.
- AI access is limited and must be authorised.
- No use for AI training without explicit permission.
- Important decisions remain with the individual.
These are design objectives for research and prototyping. They are not independently verified guarantees.
Digital identity and AI representation
This strand asks whether selected personal knowledge and communication patterns could support an interactive digital representation of a person, for example one that answers questions in their style, with their authorisation.
It raises difficult questions. How can authenticity be established? Who may authorise, limit or revoke a representation? How is impersonation prevented, and how should a representation always identify itself as one? The research treats these as open questions rather than solved problems.
No claim is made that AI can capture or reproduce a complete personality, consciousness or identity.
Wearable AI collaboration
Wearable devices could provide a natural interface for personal intelligence: authorised recording and transcription, contextual assistance, and hands-free interaction through smart glasses or heads-up displays.
Collaboration
I welcome conversations with manufacturers, developers and research partners working on customisable recording devices, smart glasses, heads-up displays and hands-free AI interfaces. Open APIs, SDKs, firmware flexibility and strong privacy controls are priorities.
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