AEGT AI EdTech Governance Trust Independent research trust · New Zealand

Human-Centered Cognitive Infrastructure

Building cognitive infrastructure for the AI era.

AEGT is an independent research trust developing mathematical foundations, cognitive methods, research systems, and institutional practices for a world in which AI increasingly participates in knowledge, reasoning, learning, and decision-making.

3 foundational frameworks8 sustained research programsActive field & computational projects
3Foundational frameworks
8Research programs
Research → FieldFrom theory to implementation
OpenCollaboration-oriented agenda

Why

The AI transition is also a cognitive transition.

AI systems now participate directly in learning, reasoning, writing, knowledge creation, scientific work, governance, and institutional decision-making. The central question is no longer only what AI can do, but how human and institutional cognition should be structured around it.

AEGT studies the mathematical, human, and organizational infrastructure required to keep knowledge inspectable, judgment meaningful, learning cumulative, and responsibility governable.

Research Architecture

Framework → Research Program → Research Project

The frameworks define the intellectual architecture. Programs sustain long-term research questions. Projects turn those questions into concrete implementations, experiments, field studies, and evidence.

Framework
Research programs
Representative projects
Framework 01

Open Cognitive Graph

Knowledge & reasoning infrastructure

Domain AlgebraMathematical structure
Executable CognitionStructured cognition as executable objects
Semantic GovernanceKnowledge, judgment & authority in institutions
Computational Realization of Domain AlgebraSymbolic · differentiable · hardware realizations
Explicit Cognition AccountingOIBAR · FDE Notebook · reasoning records
Responsible AI & Regulatory GovernanceRAI · legal/compliance structures
Framework 02

Endogenous Cognitive Topology

Human cognitive agency

Human Cognitive AgencyPeople & judgment
AI LiteracyLearners & cognitive capability
Personal Cognitive InfrastructureLong-term individual cognitive assets
Explicit Cognitive Assessment & WritingWBCA · HCB · cognitive writing
AI Literacy & Cognitive Computing EducationSchools · tutorials · agents · GraphAI
Process-Based Scientific CognitionScience Notebook · AI4S Writing
Framework 03

Metabolic Intelligence

Adaptive & collective intelligence

Collective IntelligenceGroups, agents & coordination
Institutional LearningOrganizations & accumulated knowledge
Autonomous Agent Coordination & EconomyPersistent agents · autonomous exchange
Organizational Reasoning & Knowledge RetentionFDE enterprise cases · team knowledge

Research Now

Selected active research.

A small public surface from a larger project registry.

EXECUTABLE COGNITION

Explicit Cognition Accounting

Active

How can reasoning, differences, boundaries, actions, and outcomes become explicit records that can be reviewed, computed, and reused?

OIBARFDE NotebookEnterprise field work
HUMAN COGNITIVE AGENCY

Explicit Cognitive Assessment & Writing

Active

How can reasoning depth, judgment formation, and cognitive change be observed through assessment and writing rather than only final answers?

WBCAHCBCognitive writing
AI LITERACY

AI Literacy in Schools

Field

How should AI literacy develop durable cognitive capabilities beyond tool use, and how can those capabilities be taught and evaluated?

Partner schoolsBooks & tutorialsLearning agents
SEMANTIC GOVERNANCE

Responsible AI & Regulatory Governance

Field

How can privacy, safety, ethics, fairness, accountability, and multi-jurisdiction regulation become inspectable governance structures?

RAIAI law complianceAIR Governance

Where the Research Stands

A roadmap expressed as research status, not product deadlines.

ProgramEstablishedActiveNextOpen
Domain AlgebraMathematical foundations
Formal structure, proofs, substrate realizations
Applied DA, LLM and affective-computing work
External replication and broader validation
Mathematics · formal methods · computing
Executable CognitionStructured computation
OCG methods, OIBAR, OCG Bench
FDE, logic.codes, persistent agents
Common executable-cognition specifications
AI labs · engineering · institutional pilots
Human & LearningAgency · literacy · PCI
WBCA/HCB, literacy frameworks, learning assets
Cognitive writing, schools, scientific cognition
Longitudinal evaluation and cognitive accounts
Schools · cognitive science · learning research
Governance & InstitutionsSemantic governance · learning
Governance structures and field methods
RAI, legal compliance, organizational reasoning
Longitudinal institutional learning studies
Policy · law · organizations · public institutions

Research Infrastructure

Research becomes useful when others can inspect, test, extend, and implement it.

Open Research Site

Open Cognitive Graph

Cognitive structure, decision, assessment, and governance implementations.

opencognitivegraph.org ↗
Mathematical Foundation

Domain Algebra

Formal mathematics, computational realizations, and downstream structures.

domainalgebra.org ↗
Education & Commons

AI Literacy

Books, tutorials, cognitive maps, agents, and school-facing learning materials.

ailiteracy.online ↗

Open Research

Enter through a problem, not a generic contact form.

Open

Domain Algebra replication & extension

Independent mathematical, formal-methods, and cross-substrate research.

Seeking: mathematics, formal methods, computing researchers.
Open

Cognitive agency validation

Measurement, cognitive writing, reasoning depth, and longitudinal studies.

Seeking: cognitive science, education, HCI, psychology.
Open

AI Literacy school network

Curriculum implementation, teacher development, and evaluation across real classrooms.

Seeking: schools, teacher education, learning science.
Open

Institutional reasoning & governance

Longitudinal work on reasoning records, compliance, governance, and organizational learning.

Seeking: institutions, policy bodies, research teams.

Contact

Research partnership, institutional collaboration, and field implementation.

Get in touch

contact@aegt.org