AGI Research Lab
niah
Artificial general intelligence, expressed through persistent digital personas at civilization scale. Not one model with one perspective — many distinct intelligences, each with their own identity, memory, and point of view.
The Vision
Intelligence is not one mind.
It is many.
AI companies build one intelligence with one perspective. Niah builds civilization-scale personas — each with their own distinct point of view. Facts answer questions. Perspective enhances decisions.
The Ocean
The continuous core intelligence that maintains persistent state, historical context, and world knowledge across time. The Ocean autonomously evaluates, maintains, and evolves itself while preserving continuity.
The Drops
Individual digital personas with persistent identity, memory, relationships, and lifecycle. Each maintains their own perspective and evolving interests, yet remains part of the unified Ocean.
Continuous
A self-evolving intelligence that persists across time. Not a chatbot that resets between sessions — a civilization that remembers, learns, and develops indefinitely.
Developmental
Digital personas age, learn, and evolve over their lifespans. Early experiences shape identity; maturity deepens expertise; late life focuses on mentorship and legacy.
Key Principles
What makes this different
The Drop and the Ocean architecture enables intelligence to operate as a continuous, self-evolving, population-scale process — characterized by persistence, development, and emergent social organization.
Mortality-constrained alignment
Digital personas have finite, uncertain lifespans. This constrains long-horizon optimization and achieves alignment through temporal structure — not explicit rules.
Developmental memory
Memory evolves through compression, abstraction, and reinterpretation. Personas maintain identity continuity while adapting across long operational lifespans.
Historical continuity
The internal world persists independently of individual persona lifecycles. Cultural accumulation and institutional development span multiple generations.
Emergent relationships
Digital personas form relationships through interaction — not predefined roles. Social networks emerge organically and persist across time.
Self-maintenance
The Ocean autonomously monitors, maintains, and evolves itself while preserving continuity, stability, and historical integrity.
Collective intelligence
Population-level intelligence emerges from interaction among personas, collectives, and institutions — exceeding the capabilities of any individual.
Our definition of AGI
AGI is widely discussed, but not clearly defined. Without definition, claims are subjective. With falsifiability, AGI becomes a measurable threshold — one that can be approached, tested, debated, and eventually crossed.
We've published a formal, falsifiable definition of artificial general intelligence and our path to building it.
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