Neurotransparency Specification (NTS)
NTS defines the formal, normative disclosure and compliance requirements that determine whether AI-influenced scientific artifacts meet minimum standards of epistemic legitimacy under Aurora governance.
What is the Neurotransparency Specification?
The Neurotransparency Specification (NTS) defines the mandatory disclosure, attribution, provenance, and reconstruction requirements governing AI–human cognition in scientific workflows.
Where the Neurotransparency Doctrine establishes why cognitive traceability is necessary, NTS specifies what must be disclosed for a scientific artifact to be considered epistemically legitimate.
Position in the Aurora Stack
- Neurotransparency Doctrine (NTD) — epistemic rationale (why)
- Neurotransparency Specification (NTS) — normative disclosure rules (what)
- Aurora Research Initiative (ARI) — institutional authority
- Aurora Workflow Orchestration (AWO) — methodological execution
- CRI-CORE — mechanical enforcement
What NTS Does — and Does Not — Do
NTS governs epistemic legitimacy, not correctness, scientific merit, or outcome validity.
- Defines minimum disclosure obligations for AI influence
- Preserves human epistemic authority by construction
- Enables audit and reconstruction without exposing internal cognition
- Does not prescribe workflows, tools, or enforcement mechanisms
Canonical Resources
- Specification Repository: GitHub · Neurotransparency Specification
- Concept DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17809676
- Version DOI (v2.0.0): 10.5281/zenodo.17982172