Paper I · Personal Intelligence
Personal World Models: Toward Human-Centric Personal Intelligence Systems
Justin Holbrook, Swaroop Kallakuri, Joshua Holbrook, Lucas Burgess · Anywhere Intelligence · 2026
The dominant paradigm in AI optimizes for machine-side intelligence: scale, benchmark performance, agentic capability. This framing is correct for many objectives and incorrect for one — systems designed to live with a specific human over years. For such systems, the central missing architecture is not more intelligence, but a different kind of structure: one that encodes not how the world generally behaves, but what the world specifically means to this user, in their specific history, with their specific relationships.
Formally distinguishes the personal world model from user profiling, persistent LLM memory, and graph RAG — structural differences, not cosmetic ones.
Introduces three-layer knowledge separation: ontology primitives, common-sense priors, and personal meaning commitments — user-authorized, provenance-tagged, reversible.
Derives continuous engagement (no session boundaries) as a necessary architectural consequence of coherence constraints, not a product feature.
Introduces constitutional continuity: an alignment approach for systems that accompany a human life across years, during which values genuinely evolve.