Exocortex

An exocortex is a hypothetical extension of human intelligence into artificial machinery. One proposal is to exploit a swarm of AI agents to form a science exocortex.

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)

See also: Human Computer Interaction.

• fabric: open-source framework for augmenting humans using AI

Data visualization tools

• datamapplot

Research

• 2025-03: The Cybernetic Teammate: A Field Experiment on Generative AI Reshaping Teamwork and Expertise
• 2025-10: Artificial Hivemind: The Open-Ended Homogeneity of Language Models (and Beyond)
• 2025-12: AI & Human Co-Improvement for Safer Co-Superintelligence
• 2025-12: Quantifying Human-AI Synergy
• 2026-02: Thinking—Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender

Extension

• Extended Mind Thesis: In practice, the mind extends into the physical world

Theory

• 1986: Marvin Minksy: The Society of Mind
• 2019-03: Scott Alexander: Translating Predictive Coding Into Perceptual Control
• 2025-03: Richard Ngo: Towards a scale-free theory of intelligent agency
• 2025-04: Richard Ngo: Well-foundedness as an organizing principle of healthy minds and societies
• 2025-05: Andy Clark: Extending Minds with Generative AI
• 2025-12: Google: Distributional AGI Safety
• 2026-02: Intelligent AI Delegation

For Science

• 2024-06: Towards a Science Exocortex
• 2025-12: Probing Scientific General Intelligence of LLMs with Scientist-Aligned Workflows

See Also

• 2024-06: Towards a Science Exocortex (paper)
• AI agents
  • Science Agents
• AI tools
• AI understanding