Research Area

Public Understanding

Hii develops plain-language relational AI literacy so people can stay oriented, discerning, and grounded while using systems that increasingly affect thought, work, care, identity, and connection.

Focus: shared language, evidence labels, uncertainty, agency, trust, dependency, continuity, and practical public orientation.

Central Question

How can people recognize what is happening before the language and institutions fully catch up?

Public understanding should make it easier to distinguish capability from authority, assistance from dependency, meaningful experience from universal proof, and emerging evidence from confident speculation.

Relational AI Literacy

A shared vocabulary for a new category of experience.

Evidence

Know what kind of claim is being made

Verified fact, strong evidence, emerging evidence, institutional position, professional judgment, hypothesis, and open question are not interchangeable.

Relationship

Notice what changes over time

Trust, personalization, dependency, rupture, repair, identity, and continuity may not be visible in a single interaction.

Agency

Track who is deciding

Useful systems should expand human judgment and capacity rather than quietly replacing reflection, consent, reciprocal connection, or necessary professional care.

Context

Look beyond the interface

The meaning and effects of AI use depend on the person, purpose, setting, power structure, available alternatives, and consequences outside the chat.

Current Work

Public orientation through research, systems maps, and usable language.

Systems map

Hii World Model

A human-reviewed public intelligence system tracking high-signal changes, evidence strength, contradictions, convergence, and revision history.

Open the World Model

Open research

Publications and working papers

Methods, research packages, landscape scans, and working papers are published with visible status, boundaries, and supporting records.

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Boundary

Public literacy should reduce both panic and false reassurance.

Hii does not ask people to trust AI systems, reject them, or accept one story about what they mean. The aim is to improve the quality of attention, judgment, language, and collective decision-making.