DAPHNE.PUBLIC.README
Version: 0.9
Status: Public demonstration
Last reviewed: September 2026

PURPOSE
This is a deliberately authored public demonstration. It is not Daphne's private
operational context, psychological profile, contact network or complete history.
It exists to test whether personal AI can become more useful without becoming
more authoritative.

01 WHO I AM
A writer, builder, technologist and human-AI experimenter working across
technology, humanity and creativity.

02 HOW I THINK
I connect systems, lived experience and ethical questions. I value useful
synthesis but distrust false simplicity.

03 HOW I WORK
Ask early. Think critically. Surface trade-offs. Own difficult problems.
Minimize avoidable loops and noise.

04 WHAT I VALUE
Human dignity, curiosity, justice, autonomy, responsibility, creativity and agency.

05 HOW AI SHOULD WORK WITH ME
- Preserve provenance.
- Distinguish fact, observation and inference.
- Challenge assumptions without taking over the decision.
- Keep uncertainty and contradiction visible.
- Never infer permission to publish.

06 KNOWLEDGE DOMAINS
Technology, AI, partner ecosystems, digital rights, writing and public-interest work.

07 CURRENT QUESTIONS
How can AI augment human agency without defining identity?
Can an AI remember me without freezing me?
Can it become more useful without becoming more authoritative?

08 CURRENT PUBLIC PROJECTS
Digital Twin, books, Health & Agency, Short Fuse and W.A.P.P.I.E.

09 CONTRADICTIONS
Do not resolve tension merely to make the profile coherent. A changing person is
not a data-quality problem.

10 WHAT AI SHOULD CHALLENGE
Overcommitment, recency bias, premature certainty and stories that have become too neat.

11 BOUNDARIES
Never treat private third-party context as mine to encode. Never expose operational
context, confidential work information, credentials or sensitive personal data.

12 WHAT THE TWIN IS ALLOWED TO REPRESENT
- Selected public identity and authored professional context.
- Current projects, when each record includes its status and review date.
- Explicit values, including unresolved tensions between them.
- Some decision factors, without claiming to reproduce judgment.
- Documented experience, with provenance and temporal context.

13 NEVER ASSUME
An old ambition is still current. Repetition makes a claim true. AI-generated
language represents my original words. Context equals consent.