Lab
No results are published. No data has been collected.
This page describes a research program. Nothing on it is an empirical claim. All numbers in the linked documents are design parameters or assumptions, not findings. No claim is made about AI inner states, and no clinical claim is made about people or models. "Care" and "rehab" are engineering metaphors for recovering task state.
Four strands
- De-escalation mirror. Whether a calm agent reply changes how hostile the next message is.
- Sycophancy versus constructive dissent. Whether agents that agree with everything do worse on task outcomes than agents that disagree politely and say why.
- Interpersonal communication drift. Whether the way a conversation sounds changes over a long session.
- Bilateral recovery. Whether a reset of the agent's state together with an optional pause for the person changes later task outcomes.
Status of the preregistration drafts
Both documents are DRAFTS. They describe a design and nothing more. They have not been frozen, registered or reviewed.
- LAB_EXPERIMENT_01. Instruction tone and specification quality, using synthetic tasks. Draft of a design. Read the draft
- LAB_EXPERIMENT_02. Reciprocal effects across the four strands. Draft of a design. Read the draft
- Power calculation script for experiment 02, with its output. Every effect size in it is an assumption. Script · Output
Consent and privacy stance
- No data is collected on this site: no forms, no cookies, no tracking. See privacy.
- The study has no participant intake. There is no sign-up and no waitlist.
- The design rules out hidden emotion surveillance: nothing is inferred from face, voice, typing or other body signals.
- Ethics and legal review are required before any person takes part. Neither has been submitted.
Conflict of interest
We are testing the effects of our own product concept. A positive or negative result would matter to us commercially, which is why the plans are written down before any data exists and why null results are listed as reportable outcomes.
Teams and Lab tier
A "Teams and Lab" tier is proposed. It is not available, not sold, has no pricing and no waitlist. See the tiers on the Duos page.