HAi4M releases book on cognitive intelligence and embodied AI

HAi4M announced the Amazon release of Unlocking Cognitive Intelligence: AI vs. Authentic Intelligence, a two-volume book by CEO Jason Chen and brain scientist Dr. Newton Howard. The company says the work expands its push to connect AI, rehabilitation technology and embodied human function.

Why it matters: - HAi4M is tying its AI research to rehabilitation and human function, not just software performance. - The book frames intelligence as a cycle of knowing, acting, feedback and learning, which aligns with HAi4M's Brain–Body–Behavior Intelligence platform. - The release is aimed at readers tracking where AI, neurotechnology and embodied rehabilitation may converge next.

What happened: - HAi4M announced the release of Unlocking Cognitive Intelligence: AI vs. Authentic Intelligence on Amazon on Aug. 27, 2026. - The two-volume book was co-authored by HAi4M CEO and Founder Jason Chen and brain-computation and cognitive scientist Dr. Newton Howard. - The work was developed through the AI × HAI Lab, an affiliated nonprofit research lab of HAi4M. - The announcement came from Silicon Valley, California.

The details: - The book examines three questions: how AI acquired cognitive intelligence, what still separates artificial intelligence from Human Authentic Intelligence, and whether AI × HAI can co-evolve toward superintelligence. - The authors move from algorithms, probability, attention, emergence and world models to embodied agency, memory, emotion, ethics and the unity of knowing and acting. - The book introduces a Cognitive Phenomenology of AI as a framework for understanding how intelligence may develop the capacity to know, act, bear consequence and become wisdom. - The central argument is that AI must move beyond scale and prediction toward embodiment, action, feedback, persistent memory, responsibility and continuous learning. - Chen said the goal is not simply to make AI more powerful, but to make intelligence more embodied, responsible and life-serving. - Chen said Human Authentic Intelligence must give that power purpose and direction and transform knowing into responsible action and wisdom. - HAi4M says that vision sits at the heart of its mission to build an integrated Brain–Body–Behavior Intelligence platform through its IBB framework. - HAi4M describes IBB as a living cycle in which intention and cognition arise through the brain and nervous system, capability is embodied through movement and physiology, action becomes behavior, and experience returns as feedback and learning. - The company says this model is relevant for people living with stroke, spinal cord injury, Parkinson's disease, traumatic brain injury, ALS, dementia and other neurological conditions. - HAi4M says recovery requires restoring the unity of intention, perception, bodily action and meaningful function. - HAi4M says its solutions combine rehabilitation robotics, immersive virtual reality, brain–computer interfaces, sensing and AI. - The company says those tools are intended to help patients relearn functional capability by reconnecting cognitive knowing with the body's capacity to act. - HAi4M lays out the loop as: brain intention, embodied action, functional behavior, intelligent feedback and personalized restoration. - The company says robotics can support and progressively challenge movement, immersive environments can add context and meaning, sensing can measure performance and AI can personalize what comes next. - HAi4M says patients in this loop do not merely receive therapy; they relearn how intention becomes movement and capability returns to life. - The book also presents HAi4M's technological mission as having scientific and philosophical meaning beyond rehabilitation alone. - HAi4M says the collaboration brings together two intellectual paths: Dr. Howard's scientific work on brain computation and cognition, and Chen's work in Eastern wisdom traditions and embodied intelligence. - Dr. Howard is described as a distinguished professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology and a former faculty member at the University of Oxford, MIT and Georgetown University. - Dr. Howard founded the MIT Mind Machine Project and Synthetic Intelligence Lab, as well as the Howard Brain Sciences Foundation and C4ADS. - Chen is described as CEO and Founder of HAi4M, Director of the AI × HAI Lab and an advocate of Yogācāra, Daoism and Confucian self-cultivation. - HAi4M says the book asks how AI and humanity may evolve together while expanding intelligence and restoring human capability. - HAi4M says its purpose is to reconnect intention with action, restore capability through the body and return independence, agency and possibility to people's lives.

Between the lines: - The release positions HAi4M as more than a rehabilitation tech company; it is trying to define a broader philosophy for embodied intelligence. - The book also serves as a narrative bridge between AI research and clinical recovery, linking machine learning concepts to human rehabilitation outcomes. - That framing may help HAi4M stand out in both the AI and medtech conversations, where embodiment and real-world function are becoming bigger themes.

What's next: - HAi4M is likely to keep using the book as an intellectual foundation for its Brain–Body–Behavior Intelligence platform. - The company's next stage appears to be advancing rehabilitation robotics, VR, BCI and AI as an integrated system for neurological recovery and human performance. - Readers can access the book through Amazon.