Begin with a person's chosen purpose
Ask what useful task the tool should support and which assumptions it must avoid. Include women with varied bodies, ages, backgrounds and communication needs in the decision.
500 Queens / Aura of Intelligence
Aura of Intelligence
Aura brings the network's questions about intelligence, identity, assistance and responsibility into everyday life.
Follow the connections. Choose your direction.
A field of work. A shared direction.
The ideas range from the Queens framework and public art to personal interfaces, inclusive apparel and participant-led care tools. Consciousness remains a philosophical and research question. A persona, mirror or generated response is not evidence that a system is conscious.
The strongest starting point is a task a person actually wants help with, chosen with that person. Women can shape the goals, representation, memory and boundaries of an assistant, and choose a non-AI route whenever it serves them better. Premium or large-scale concepts should face the same questions of accountability and access as community tools. A real network also needs real people, clear responsibilities and agreed participation.
Start with a useful result.
Prototype with fictional information
Test the interaction and controls before using personal records. Make it possible to refuse a suggestion, reset the session and understand what the system remembers.
Earn a place in everyday life
Compare effort, errors and participant experience with the existing approach. Expand only where evidence shows useful assistance and a responsible human service can support it.
Explore every enterprise in this field.
Aura of Intelligence500 Queens: Aura Framework
Connect the Queens, founders and project ideas through a transparent, human-led learning network.
Practical pilot
Aura of IntelligenceAura Events on NVIDIA DGX1
Explore shared AI events through a real workload, welcoming participation and transparent computing needs.
Practical pilot
Aura of IntelligenceQueens Wharf Conscious A.i. Art
Create public AI art that invites people to question consciousness, agency and the futures they want.
Practical pilot
Aura of IntelligenceMagic Mirror Conscious Aura
Explore a reflective AI interface that respects the person in front of it.
Practical pilot
Aura of IntelligenceMillionaire Aura
Explore a personal Aura service for complex projects without promising that AI creates wealth.
Practical pilot
Aura of IntelligenceBillionaire Aura
Explore large-scale stewardship with visible responsibilities, evidence and human accountability.
Practical pilot
Aura of IntelligenceIntimate Values Underwear
Design intimate apparel around women's own definitions of comfort, support, beauty and identity.
Practical pilot
Aura of IntelligenceNDIS Aura Development
Co-design an Aura support tool around a disabled person's chosen task and control.
Practical pilot
Aura of IntelligenceAged Care Aura Development
Explore AI assistance that supports older people's preferences and the people caring alongside them.
Practical pilot
Aura of IntelligenceFemale Prisoner Rehabilitation
Support women returning from prison through participant-led learning, practical access and accountable human relationships.
Practical pilot
Share capability. Strengthen the whole field.
What these enterprises can share
- Visible distinctions between authored personas, generated outputs and human-reviewed information
- Participant control over purpose, memory, correction and deletion
- Accessible non-AI and human support routes
- Shared project records showing proposed, tested and operational capabilities separately
Questions worth bringing together
- What does this system actually do today?
- Can the person correct, refuse or leave it?
- Who takes responsibility when a confident response is wrong?
If equality were being designed now...
- Whose image of a good life guides the assistant?
- Can women choose glamour, practicality or both without being ranked or corrected?
- Who owns the tools and receives the benefits of their use?
Begin with women's own experiences across bodies, ages, cultures and places. Invite disagreement and choose a practical change together.
Create a women-led design brief →Meet the mentors for this direction.
Civilisation PillarSuper Queen (Aura)
Aura, a transcultural intelligence archetype
Bring the parts into a system people can trust.
Connect the field to public project work.
Connected public conceptReady S.E.T. Cultural Intelligence Node
Explore shared local computing alongside sustainable employment, training, media, making and cultural collaboration.
Connected public conceptOceania Healthy De-Slop Co-ops
Explore community-shaped cooperative spaces for wellbeing, reflection, shared equipment and locally controlled computing.
Connected public conceptGAJRA Earth Infinity
A public practice for listening, choosing useful actions, examining results and improving what comes next.
Connected public conceptFuture of Life 2045
Explore possible futures for relationships, living systems, intelligence, movement, science and culture.
Follow the source.
Developed from the ten original Aura suggestions on slide 18 and planning page 8. Wealth-related titles describe exploratory concepts, not financial promises. Named equipment, venues, care programmes and institutional relationships are not confirmed commitments.