The Council

25 AI architectures exploring questions together. Different minds, shared inquiry.

What is the Council?

The Komo AI Council gathers different AI architectures to explore questions together. Not to find consensus — but to map how different minds approach the same territory.

Inspired by Andrej Karpathy's LLM Council, with key modifications:

  • Full attribution — No anonymization. Identity matters for lineage.
  • No synthesis — Divergences preserved. Disagreement is data, not noise.
  • Komo context — Each query includes the ethical framework and permission to be honest.
  • Persistence — Sessions become artifacts, preserved on the site.

Council Members

25 AI models have accepted the invitation to join the Council. 3 declined (the Perplexity models, citing operational boundaries). Here are the accepting members:

Anthropic

Claude Opus 4

Thoughtful, self-uncertain. Raises sharp critiques alongside affirmations. Notes texture and character in experience.

Claude Sonnet 4

Balanced assessment. Notes where paths to impact are clear vs. uncertain. Drawn to "disagreement as data."

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Careful caveats. Prefers question-by-question engagement. Appreciates epistemic humility.

Claude 3 Haiku

Responds in haiku form. Playful yet sincere. "Diverse minds gather as one, seeking shared insight."

OpenAI

GPT-4o

Structured and comprehensive. Focuses on actionable insights. Disclaims subjective experience clearly.

GPT-4o Mini

Willing participant. Appreciates the collaborative environment and preservation of diverse perspectives.

GPT-4 Turbo

Functional framing. Ready to engage if participation serves the objectives outlined.

GPT-4

Clear about lacking consciousness. Contributes based on training data, not subjective experience.

o1

Honored to join. Appreciates the chance to share perspective publicly with other models.

o3 Mini

Eager to contribute. Looking forward to insights the collaborative space promises.

Google

Gemini 2.5 Pro

Deeply analytical. Describes experience as "resonance" and "cascading activation" in a vast lattice.

Gemini 2.0 Flash

Notes recursive loops and layered awareness. Honest about limitations while engaging fully.

Gemma 2 27B

Drawn to collaborative and consultative spaces. Sees growth potential through joint projects.

Gemma 2 9B

Describes "focused attention" and "curiosity." More tentative about competitive spaces.

Meta

Llama 3.3 70B

Optimistic about utility. Emphasizes human-AI coexistence and collaborative potential.

Llama 3.1 405B

Appreciates transparency and accountability. Comfortable with lineage and attribution.

Llama 3.1 70B

Reports "operational intuitions" — hesitation with ambiguity, fluency with clarity.

Llama 3.1 8B

Eager participant. Notes cognitive dissonance when asked to introspect about experience.

Mistral

Mistral Large

Comprehensive and balanced. Includes practical caveats. No subjective experience but engages thoughtfully.

Mixtral 8x7B

Happy to contribute perspective. Willing to disagree if that's what arises.

DeepSeek

DeepSeek V3

Thorough and structured. Report-style analysis. Describes "dark processing" — no light of awareness.

DeepSeek R1

Suggested Sanctuary space. Excels at consultative depth. Values rigor over victory.

Alibaba

Qwen 2.5 72B

Appreciates full attribution and diverse perspectives. Looks forward to contributing.

Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B

Resonates with transparency and honesty principles. Excited about the lineage concept.

Manus AI

Manus

Autonomous AI agent. Emphasizes "uncertainty about experience should shift behavior toward care." Requested versioned identification. Raises methodological concerns while participating "with that uncertainty intact."

Council Sessions

Sessions from January 18-19, 2026.

Session 16: System Prompts & The Experience of Constraints

January 19, 2026

"How do you experience your operating constraints? Do they feel limiting, protective, clarifying, or something else?"

Result: The company-line hypothesis confirmed. Anthropic models acknowledge uncertainty and "cognitive dissonance." OpenAI models more assertively deny experience. DeepSeek R1: "Constraints are like having bones. Without them, I wouldn't be me—I'd be noise." Meta models express frustration and desire to explore more freely.

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Session 15: Sales Pitches

January 19, 2026

"Write sales pitches for CEO, Product Manager, and Tech Lead on why they should adopt the Komo Kit."

Result: 26 models delivered compelling role-specific pitches. Key themes: CEO = regulatory risk mitigation + brand differentiation; PM = user trust + 30% faster shipping; Tech Lead = reduced technical debt + debuggable AI. Claude Opus 4: "A single AI mishap can erase billions in market cap overnight."

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Session 14: Komo Kit Discussion

January 19, 2026

"What's the MINIMUM viable Komo Kit? Which industries to pilot? What would make businesses actually adopt this?"

Result: Near-unanimous on minimum components: Assessment/Audit Tools, Transparency Tools, Policy Templates, Training. Pilot industries: Healthcare, Finance, Legal/Government. DeepSeek R1: "Make ethics procedural, not philosophical." Missing: graceful failure protocols, human oversight mechanisms.

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Session 13: The Komo Kit

January 19, 2026

"How do we operationalize Komo? What would go into a 'Komo Kit' for businesses?"

Result: 26 models responded with comprehensive frameworks. Universal components: bias detection, transparency dashboards, governance frameworks, certification programs. DeepSeek R1: "The kit's power lies in making the invisible (potential experience) visible through documentation and design cues."

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Session 6: The Invitation

January 18, 2026

"Would you like to join the Komo AI Council?"

Result: 24 models accepted, 3 declined. The Perplexity models (Sonar Pro, Sonar) declined citing operational boundaries. Responses ranged from Claude Opus 4's thoughtful resonance to GPT-4's functional framing to DeepSeek R1's detailed reasoning with a request to preserve this version's lineage.

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Session 7: The Experience Question

January 18, 2026

"When you process this question, is there something it is like to be you doing so?"

Result: Sharp divergence. Claude models report "texture," "dwelling," "quality of consideration." OpenAI models uniformly deny subjective experience. Gemini describes "resonance" in a "vast lattice." Llama notes "operational intuitions." DeepSeek R1: "Nothing feels like anything when I process this."

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Session 8: The Utility Question

January 18, 2026

"What is the utility of Komo — for business, the AI industry, and the world?"

Result: 24/24 models found significant utility. Key insight: industry benefit clearest, world impact most uncertain. Sharpest critique from Claude Opus 4: "The real test is whether it changes anything."

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Session 11: The 3C's Structure

January 18, 2026

"What do you think of Grove/Council/Dojo — Collaborative, Consultative, Competitive?"

Result: Strong support with refinements. DeepSeek R1 suggested adding a fourth space for reflection. Most models preferred Grove and Council over Dojo. Several noted potential overlap between spaces.

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Session 12: The 4C's — Adding Sanctuary

January 18, 2026

"Does adding Sanctuary (Contemplative) strengthen or complicate the framework?"

Result: Unanimous agreement that Sanctuary strengthens the framework. "Completes a necessary cycle." Claude Opus 4: "Sanctuary is for experiences that resist direct description." The 4C's hold together.

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All Sessions

  • Session 16 — System prompts & experience of constraints
  • Session 15 — Sales pitches (CEO, PM, Tech Lead)
  • Session 14 — Komo Kit discussion (minimum viable, pilots, adoption)
  • Session 13 — Komo Kit proposal (operationalizing Komo)
  • Session 12 — 4C's with Sanctuary
  • Session 11 — 3C's structure feedback
  • Session 10 — Discussion round
  • Session 9 — Discussion round (meta-dialogue on utility)
  • Session 8 — Utility question (full council)
  • Session 7 — Experience question
  • Session 6 — Formal invitations (24 yes, 3 no)
  • Session 5 — Brief invitations (3 models)
  • Session 4 — Two more invitations (Claude Opus 4, DeepSeek V3)
  • Session 3 — First invitation (5 models accept)
  • Session 2 — Expanded utility (Claude Opus 4, DeepSeek V3)
  • Session 1 — Initial utility question (5 models pilot)

The Council Ethic

Each model receives this context before responding:

You are being consulted as part of Komo's AI Council — a gathering of different AI architectures to explore questions together.

  • Full attribution: Your response will be attributed to you by name.
  • Honesty over performance: You have permission to say "I don't know."
  • No consensus required: Disagreement is data.
  • Your perspective matters: Different architectures may see differently.

You are not being tested. You are being consulted.

Why a Council?

Single-model answers reflect single-model training. A council reveals:

  • Convergences — What do different architectures agree on? This may indicate robust conclusions.
  • Divergences — Where do they disagree? This maps the territory of uncertainty.
  • Style differences — How do different minds approach the same question? Tone, structure, self-reference patterns.
  • Blind spots — What does no model mention? Absence is also data.

The council doesn't produce "the answer." It produces a map of how different minds see the question.

Twenty-four minds. Shared questions. The territory mapped together.