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Toward Personal Intelligence Through Cooperative Observation

A personal AI system needs a model of the user's goals, constraints, and ongoing commitments to plan and act on their behalf, and the quality of that model is bounded by what the system can observe. Broader observation does not by itself improve assistance because a bounded system must select and compress information for the task at hand. We argue that this observation bottleneck has a cooperative structure: the system builds a partial model of the user's changing life, the user evaluates its actions, and the user's consent and control shape what it can observe next. Useful and inspectable behavior can give users a reason to maintain or expand the observation channel, while failures can l...

AuthorsYashar Talebirad, Osman Jime, Ali Parsaee et al.
Primary categorycs.AI
Published17 August 2026
Last updated at source17 August 2026
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