We are building intelligence without having agreed on what it is for. Aikyam proposes a third path between the dominant AI narratives of competitive acceleration and existential risk: a constitutionally governed cognitive partnership between a human being, whose sovereign conscious awareness remains the irreducible ground of the system, and Bodha, an awakened advisory intelligence that operates within the human cognitive architecture to expand the human's capacity for thought, discernment, and purposive clarity without displacing the human's own judgment, values, or identity. The framework rests on three foundations. The first is philosophical and cognitive, drawing on both Western cognitive science and the Pancha Kosha framework of the Taittiriya Upanishad to map human cognitive architecture and locate Bodha's role within it. The second is constitutional: six governing principles for the human-Bodha relationship, including Vishwas Arjan (earned endorsement), which proposes governance intrinsic to the relationship itself rather than imposed from outside it. The third is ethical, grounding the framework in five Dharmic principles in which ethics and architecture are treated as the same thing described from different directions. The paper engages honestly with the risks a system of this intimacy creates — identity drift, cognitive dependency, influence accumulation, and equity of access among them — and closes with a research agenda inviting interdisciplinary engagement from AI alignment researchers, cognitive scientists, philosophers of mind, governance scholars, and contemplative practitioners. This is a working paper (v2.0, External Feedback Draft) shared to invite critique and rigorous engagement, not as a claim of completion. A companion technical specification translating this constitutional architecture into implementation detail is planned as the next document in this project's development.
Abhishek Ghosh (2026) studied this question.