For people who think in systems.
The first metacognitive AI.
Cognitive AI reasons. Metacognitive AI examines the reasoning: its frames, its ground, its blind spots. It is built for the problems that resist simplification.
Keywords: metacognitive AI · wicked problems · sensemaking · integrative inquiry
Why metacognitive
Software has learned to reason. Paradoxically, that’s making leaders’ lives harder.
You use cognitive AI every day. On the problems that keep you up, you’ve felt where it stops: a confident answer that flattens what you needed to hold, blind to its own frame and to what you can see.
Table 1. Three kinds of software.
Alethic is the third kind. It surfaces its frames, shows its ground, names its blind spots, and leaves the judgment with you.
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- 1The term is John Flavell’s: “metacognition” — cognition about one’s own cognition — entered psychology in 1979.
“The formulation of a wicked problem is the problem!”— Rittel & Webber, Policy Sciences 4 (1973)