A human-centered platform for teaching, learning, and collaborative thinking with AI.
Topoi is built on a simple idea: AI should strengthen human judgment, not replace it. Modern AI tools often center on solitary chat sessions—one user, one chatbot, one closed loop. Topoi takes a different path.
Inspired by the ancient rhetorical concept of topoi—the “places” where ideas live—Topoi treats AI not as an answer machine but as a structured environment for inquiry. A place where students, teachers, and collaborators explore questions together.
Topoi is a general-purpose platform built for education, writing, and collaborative reasoning. It supports multi-user sessions, teacher-guided prompts, role-aware collaboration, and emerging forms of agentic support—without surrendering teacher agency or student autonomy.
Rather than outsourcing cognition, Topoi aims to create new spaces for human thinking—supported by AI, but never eclipsed by it.
The Topoi Blog offers essays, commentary, and micro-posts that explore the design philosophy behind the project, including the tension between AI empowerment and AI dependence, the role of narrative in shaping our expectations, and the future of collaborative learning with intelligent tools.
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