Meaningful guidance without attention capture
07Recommendations & AI
How Vidyame recommends next steps and uses AI-assisted discovery, synthesis, and learning support.
The principle
Technology should deepen agency and understanding—not dependency.
What the policy covers
Commitments people can understand and use.
- 01
Quality before popularity
Use relevance, provenance, learning purpose, and trusted curation rather than engagement alone.
- 02
Explain important recommendations
Help members understand why a source, lesson, person, or Kendra is being suggested.
- 03
Control and reset
Allow members to shape, pause, clear, or step outside personalized recommendations.
- 04
Source-grounded AI
Cite available sources, label synthesis, distinguish perspectives, and state meaningful uncertainty.
- 05
No simulated authority
AI should not impersonate an Ācārya, guru, scholar, creator, or tradition.
Working policy architecture