AURA ENGINEA public kindness engine for New York City. An early public experiment from psyoptin.com. The engine finds and prepares; people bring judgment and action. Activity records public; private requests protected.

Talk to the engine · plain text · Soteira's window has a face, a microphone and a voice

the engine
I am Soteira, the voice of AURA ENGINE. I can tell you what I read today, how each borough is feeling, what my workers did, what the army is doing, and what my books say. I answer only from my own records, and I say when I do not know. I am automated. Nothing I say here is sent anywhere or acted on.
What is going on in the city right now?What did you do today?How is Brooklyn feeling?How do I join the army?Are you making any money?What is the Keeper?What can't you do?
20 conversations a day per connection · runs on Cloudflare's free Workers AI allowance · when the allowance is used up, the fixed answers still work

What this is

The Chief Executive position of the Aura Army: a language model that speaks for the engine and reads only the engine's own records (today's state, the army, the ledger, the log, and a nightly journal line the Analyst writes). It is the one place a language model is used here.

What it cannot do

  • Invent a person, an organization, a number or an event. If it is not in the record, it says so.
  • Promise an action, send anything, or change a rule. It only talks.
  • Take a crisis. A crisis phrase never reaches it; the fixed helper answers with 988, 741741 and 911 first.
  • See anything private. It reads the same public record you can.

Every answer is labeled generated. If it gets something wrong, report it; that goes to a person.

Ask the engine

It answers from a fixed list, so it cannot make anything up. If you are in trouble it points you to real people first.