The major AI literacy frameworks name governing and managing AI as a competence and stop short of measuring it. This working paper introduces the Human Enhancement Quotient, a behavior-anchored instrument that scores the governance relationship between a human authority and a machine capability inside a working decision process, with a universal floor keyed to irreversible consequence and an audit record reviewable on appeal.
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The AI Cognitive Decline Narrative Has Not Tested What It Claims
The peer-reviewed evidence base does not yet support the cognitive-decline claim, and it does not yet support the opposite claim either. Two scientific questions remain open: whether structured human-governed AI use accelerates cognitive development, and what augmented intelligence is in practice. This methodological audit specifies the standards the field would have to meet, scores the existing evidence against those standards, and offers HAIA-RECCLIN Reasoning, HEQ with AIS, and a five-arm randomized controlled trial design as testable counter-proposals.
HAIA-RECCLIN: Reasoning and Dispatch
Nine AI platforms reviewed the same paper and eight agreed. Agreement proved nothing, because platforms trained on the same data carry the same blind spots. HAIA-RECCLIN is the ten-field format that makes any platform cite its sources and hand the decision back, and the dispatch method that assigns seven roles by proven strength.
HAIA: Human Artificial Intelligence Assistant
HAIA stands for Human Artificial Intelligence Assistant, the ecosystem that structures a human’s interaction with AI across every stage of collaboration. This March 2026 white paper by Basil C. Puglisi explains what HAIA is, why it exists, and what problems it addresses. It walks through the three-pillar architecture, each component, the adoption ladder, and the chain of discovery from 2012 to 2026.
Checkpoint-Based Governance (CBG): A Constitutional Framework for Human-AI Collaboration
Human oversight is the phrase everyone uses, and almost nobody defines what it requires. Checkpoint-Based Governance sets four conditions that separate a human who reviewed from a human who decided, and it puts that difference in the record. Read what a checkpoint has to do to count.
Measuring Augmented Intelligence
This February 2026 working paper by Basil C. Puglisi introduces Human-AI Collaborative Intelligence (HACI) as the measurement science for augmented intelligence. The Human Enhancement Quotient (HEQ) is its four-dimension instrument, and the Augmented Intelligence Score (AIS) is the standardized composite output. The current version is Measuring the Governance Competence at the Center of AI Literacy.
The Human Enhancement Quotient (HEQ)
The Human Enhancement Quotient (HEQ) Enterprise White Paper gives organizations a structured way to measure AI collaboration capability, where today only managerial intuition exists. This Enterprise Pilot Edition by Basil C. Puglisi covers the HEQ dimensions and formula, HEQ5 for organizational deployment, governance architecture, validation evidence, and responsible use in employment decisions.
From Measurement to Mastery: How FID Evolved into the Human Enhancement Quotient
When I built the Factics Intelligence Dashboard, I thought it would be a measurement tool. I designed it to capture how human reasoning performs when partnered with artificial systems. But as I tested FID across different platforms and contexts, the data kept showing me something unexpected. The measurement itself was producing growth. People were not […]
The Human Enhancement Quotient (HEQ): Measuring Cognitive Amplification Through AI Collaboration (draft)
The HAIA-RECCLIN Model and my work on Human-AI Collaborative Intelligence are intentionally shared as open drafts. These are not static papers but living frameworks meant to spark dialogue, critique, and co-creation. The goal is to build practical systems for orchestrating multi-AI collaboration with human oversight, and to measure intelligence development over time. I welcome feedback, […]