A diagnostic framework measuring four dimensions of human intelligence: Rational, Embodied, Relational, and Existential. AI develops the first. The other three are yours to protect.
Most conversations about AI focus on a single type of intelligence: the rational, analytical kind that AI does best. The Four Intelligences framework expands the map. It identifies four distinct dimensions of human capability, each with a different relationship to AI.
Rational Intelligence
Thinking, analysis, reasoning. The intelligence modern life develops most, and the one AI can most easily substitute.
Embodied Intelligence
Body awareness, physical experience, making. Requires a body. No algorithm replicates the wisdom of physical experience.
Relational Intelligence
Connection, empathy, genuine human engagement. Requires real humans. AI can simulate empathy, it cannot experience it.
Existential Intelligence
Meaning-making, moral reasoning, the big questions. Requires a soul. Decides what is worth doing in the first place.
The diagnostic uses 12 scenario-based questions (3 per dimension) to reveal your intelligence balance. The most common pattern: high rational, underdeveloped everything else.