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Governors

Governors

Maintain user agency as the AI works in order to understand and direct the AI's logic

Citations

Lets the AI give inline annotations to cite its sources

Controls

Manage the flow of information or pause a request mid-stream to adjust the prompt

Footprints

Let users trace the AI's steps from prompt to result

Prompt transparency

Show users what is actually happening behind the scenes

Regenerate

Have the AI reproduce its response to the prompt without additional input

Sample response

Confirm the user's intent for complicated prompts

Show the work

Have the AI show the steps it will take to respond to the user's prompt before it executes its response

Token transparency

Reveal the tokens the AI used to craft its response

Variations

Trace through multiple variations of a result to choose the one that works best for them

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