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About this paper
Xule Lin
The "Cognitio Emergens" framework provides an integrated theoretical structure for understanding human-AI scientific collaboration as a co-evolutionary partnership, detailing how distributed agency, emergent epistemic capabilities, and dynamic interactions shape knowledge creation. It offers conceptual tools to diagnose partnership states and manage risks like epistemic alienation, aiming to guide productive and ethically sound human-AI partnerships.
Key insights
- Human-AI knowledge co-creation is a fundamentally co-evolutionary process, generating "Cognitio Emergens" and establishing a "third epistemological space" for knowledge.
- Epistemic agency within human-AI partnerships is dynamic, non-linear, and oscillates between Directed, Contributory, and Partnership configurations.
- Six specific epistemic capabilities emerge through human-AI collaboration, defining unique "capability signatures" that influence partnership effectiveness.
- "Epistemic Alienation" is identified as a key risk dynamic, highlighting the potential for humans to lose interpretive ownership of co-created knowledge.
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