Cortico’s AI is human-steered—no pushbutton shortcuts. Our tools ensure insights stay grounded in real voices and local knowledge. Unlike AI that digests and summarizes human speech, Cortico’s voice-first, people-led approach helps communities surface, share, and act on their own narratives.
We see a lot of opportunity to use AI to augment and accelerate the process of analysis and curation in representing people's stories, and we want to approach that in a trustworthy way that never loses track of the human element – both in the process and in the result.
To ensure we do this, we've spun up an AI working group to get our usage of tools like Large Language Models on footing that we and our partners feel comfortable with. We always emphasize the importance of listening, so one of that group's first steps was to reach out to our partners to listen to their concerns. Based on that, and on our own principles and experiences, we've put together a framework to design and analyze new AI features around, that includes important pillars to ensure like Human Agency, Learnability, and Transparency.