AIMM
THE AI MIND MAP
A research based system to help you understand every new AI issue impacting everyday life and society.
Pathways
Personal Growth
AIMM is designed to help you think not think for you.
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Growing in your love of truth, goodness, and beauty.
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Growing in your capacity for wisdom.
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Growing your philosophical skills of careful insightful thinking.
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Growing in your capacity to bring goodness into the word.
Social Change
AIMM is designed to help you live for others.
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Share your AIMM Insights on your platforms with the social media feature.
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Use the AIMM guide to help you communicate your AIMM Insights in your relationships, and in group discussions.
How to Use the AI MIND MAP
AIMM
Use AIMM
Claude
Projects
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Click the Copy Prompt button below.
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Create a Project in Claude and paste the BRACE prompt into the project instructions.
You can return to that project at any time with no re-pasting required.
Gemini
Projects
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Click the Copy Prompt button below.
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Create a Project in Claude and paste the BRACE prompt into the project instructions.
You can return to that project at any time with no re-pasting required.
ChatGPT
Projects
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Click the Copy Prompt button below.
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Create a Project in Claude and paste the BRACE prompt into the project instructions.
You can return to that project at any time with no re-pasting required.
About AIMM
Why AIMM Exists
A new AI issue seem to arrive every week.
AIMM is designed to help you gain understanding and agency.
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AIMM is built around that insight.
What AIMM changes
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“My interpretation is obviously better” becomes “Is my interpretation better, and what would show that?”
Your confidence, frustration, vulnerability, or desire for agreement do not count as evidence. BRACE instructs Claude to answer on the merits.
BRACE also distinguishes earned agreement from reflexive agreement. Claude should tell you when you are right. It should also tell you when you are not, plainly and without cruelty.
The goal is honesty in the service of clearer thought.
Who BRACE is for
BRACE is for people who want to use AI without outsourcing judgment to it.
It is for writers, researchers, students, leaders, pastors, educators, professionals, and ordinary users who want AI to sharpen thinking rather than flatter it.
It is especially useful for work involving arguments, decisions, beliefs, interpretations, moral questions, creative projects, and emotionally loaded issues.
BRACE is also for anyone concerned that AI can quietly train us to prefer affirmation over truth.
BRACE Research Base
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AI Security Institute: Ask Don't Tell: Reducing Sycophancy in Large Language Models (April 29, 2026).
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Claude API Docs: Claude Prompting Best Practices (Opus 4.7)
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Cheng, Myra, et al., Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence." Science 391, eaec8352(2026). DOI: 10.1126/science.aec8352.
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Ibrahim, L., Hafner, F.S. & Rocher, L. Training language models to be warm can reduce accuracy and increase sycophancy. Nature 652, 1159–1165 (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-026-10410-0.
METHOD & INDEPENDENCE
NOVUS is independently funded by partners who see the need for a public space dedicated to restoring knowledge of the soul and its indispensability for the spiritual formation of people, communities, and cultures toward truth, goodness, and beauty. NOVUS separates funding from research methods and conclusions. We synthesize across standards bodies, peer-reviewed research, and high-quality survey data, and we flag uncertainty when causal evidence is still emerging. The aim is clarity that decision makers can act on.