Human capacity
Whether AI-assisted performance becomes durable human capacity.
A model can become more capable while a person's assisted output rises, retained capacity falls, relationship state becomes more consequential, or practical authority shifts away from the person. A gain in one layer does not establish a gain in another.
Model Capability≠Assisted Performance≠Human Capacity≠Relationship State≠Practical Authority
Measurement has to preserve those differences before it can support a claim about human advancement. This is the diagnostic problem Human Capacity Protection (HCP) and the Beyond Performance method address.
Where this is developed and tested
- Measurement — the full diagnostic framework separating model capability, assisted performance, human capacity, relationship state, and practical authority.
- Beyond Performance — a diagnostic method for deciding whether improved AI-mediated performance supports a claim about human advancement, remains unproven, or fails.
- The Human-Development Conversion Constraint — what evidence is required before increasing artificial capability can support a broader claim about human progress.
- Human Capacity Protection (HCP) — asks what happens to the human after assistance, and whether apparent gains survive transfer, delay, removal, or changed conditions.
Whether a durable gain in capacity is matched by continuing governance over the relationship that produced it is the subject of Human Authority.