Before we tell a school what UNI can do in a classroom, we owe them a plain list of what we will not say. Fences before promises.
This post is that list. Every line is a claim we have chosen not to make in front of students, parents, or teachers, and a short note on why the fence is there.
We do not make neuroscience claims
We do not make brain-level claims about UNI: no assertions about neural pathways, cortical change, or measurable neurological gains. Those are neuroscience claims, and we are not a neuroscience lab. UNI is a computational hypothesis rooted in active inference (Class E: Parr, Pezzulo, Friston, 2022), not a scan of a child's cortex. When a lesson helps a student predict better and check their own work, that is a learning observation, not a brain-imaging result.
We do not make clinical claims
We do not make clinical claims about UNI in schools. Anything that would sit in the therapy column, treatment, recovery, symptom reduction, is not ours to promise. That work is clinical, and it belongs to licensed clinicians, safeguarding teams, and the student's family. Our classroom posture is trauma-informed and non-clinical: we design gates and pacing that respect a student's nervous system, we do not press for disclosures, and we route safeguarding concerns to the adults in the school who are trained for it. That is a practice fence, not a treatment claim.
We do not promise a shortcut around the math
We do not tell a teacher that active inference is trivial, or that the notation vanishes if you buy our workshop. Learning these concepts takes real work. Some teachers will find the notation comfortable within a term. Others will need longer, and that is fine. We teach the ideas, we do not sell a shortcut.
We do not use hype language
We avoid the vocabulary of hype: no claims of a finished answer, a singular method, a category-defining discovery, or any variant of that register. We are not the origin of teaching thinking, and we will not pretend to be. What we offer is a specific curriculum posture, prediction before check, evidence classes as classroom vocabulary, and an AI-authorship fence on student work, that a school can inspect and adopt in pieces. That is a design choice (Class C: the fence and evidence-class tags are visible in every artifact we ship), not a marketing claim.
We do not borrow authority we have not earned
We do not imply that any named researcher, journal, or program has blessed our classroom materials. We cite Parr, Pezzulo, Friston (Class E) because their textbook is public and we build on it. Citation is not the same as sign-off, and we will not blur that line. If a formal letter of support is ever earned, we will publish the exact letter and link to it. Until then, citations are citations.
We do not claim we have arrived
We do not describe UNI as a finished general system, and we do not use the artificial-intelligence label for our work. UNI is a working hypothesis on an attainable path toward General Natural Intelligence, a natural, active-inference approach whose evidence is growing, evidence-classed, and tested in the open. Do not take the claim on faith. Test the build, inspect the gates, and help us find where it fails.
We do not claim the classroom is a lab
We do not treat students as research subjects. Classroom evidence is teaching evidence: did the student predict, did they check, did they revise. We do not run hidden experiments on children, we do not collect data we would not show a parent, and we do not publish a child's work without the school's consent process. That is a governance fence (Class C: see our transparency page for what we collect and what we do not).
Why the fences are the product
A school buying honest curriculum should be able to point at any sentence in our materials and ask, which evidence class is that. If we cannot answer, we rewrite the sentence. The fences above are not disclaimers hidden in a footer, they are the shape of the work.
If you want to see how the fences translate into daily practice, start here:
- Honesty in Classrooms: The AI-Authorship Fence
- Partnership With Schools: What SolutionWright Does and Does Not Do
- Transparency
- Book a workshop to walk your leadership team through the fences before any student sees a lesson.