Published Research

CDPID: Collaborative Driven Progressive Intent Discovery

Establishing the Developmental Foundation for Human-AI Co-Evolution

The Publication

Title: Collaborative Driven Progressive Intent Discovery: A Framework for Understanding Human-AI Co-Evolutionary Development

Author: Harlow Reseburg III

Published: SSRN Electronic Journal

DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.6278438

Field: AI-Integrated Psychology of Longevity Science — the emerging field at the intersection of AI-integrated methodology, cognitive architecture, and longevity preparation.

What CDPID Establishes

Most existing frameworks for human-AI interaction occupy one of three positions: the instrumental position (AI as sophisticated tool), the strategic position (AI as organizational capability), or the ethical position (AI as societal force).

CDPID occupies a fourth position that none of these address: the developmental position.

It asks how the human-AI relationship itself grows, matures, and compounds value over time — and what behavioral and cognitive changes drive that growth. This is not prompt engineering. It is not AI training. It is a coaching and development framework that operates at the level of the human being in relationship with AI, not the level of the output any given interaction produces.

The Core Thesis

CDPID rests on three interconnected claims:

Intent is emergent, not predetermined. Neither party arrives at a productive interaction with full understanding of what is needed. Understanding crystallizes through the dialogue itself, progressively, across iterations within a session and across sessions over time. The most valuable outcomes often couldn't have been specified in advance.

Behavioral development in the dyad is the primary unit of value. Not the outputs of any given session. Not prompt libraries or templates. The deepening quality of the human's cognitive engagement, the sophistication of their collaborative instincts, the richness of the context they bring to and extract from each interaction. A prompt library becomes obsolete over time as the human outgrows it. The real asset is the developing mind in relationship with AI.

This development follows an observable, teachable, and measurable trajectory. It is not magic, intuition, or charisma. It has structure, stages, mechanisms, and direction. CDPID maps that trajectory with enough precision to teach it, assess it, and accelerate it.

What Makes It Original

The closest academic work is distributed cognition (Hutchins), extended mind theory (Clark and Chalmers), and joint action research in cognitive science. None of that work has been synthesized into a practical developmental framework for human-AI collaboration.

CDPID fills that gap. The framework formalizes the developmental position as a distinct academic territory and establishes the theoretical architecture for research, teaching, and clinical application in human-AI co-evolutionary development.

The publication establishes Harlow Reseburg III as the founding practitioner of AI-Integrated Psychology of Longevity Science — the field that prepares high performers psychologically and cognitively for the longevity revolution already underway.

How This Connects to the Coaching and Community Work

The CDPID publication is the academic formalization of what the coaching and community work practice.

The community's Seven-Stage AI Integration Progression is the applied developmental model for building AI fluency over time — stage by stage, in a supported environment, with a community of practitioners navigating the same trajectory.

The coaching engagements use the CDPID framework as the diagnostic and developmental foundation for 1:1 work — assessing where a client is in their human-AI co-evolutionary development and building the specific systems required to advance.

The research and the practice are the same work, described at different levels of abstraction.

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→ The Seven Pillars of Intellectual Architecture — the practical framework built on the same intellectual foundation.

→ Coaching — the 1:1 application of the methodology with Chip.

→ The Community — the applied practice of CDPID principles at community scale.