Independent research. Real human cost.
“I spent three years researching AI, documenting its risks, building solutions, and trying to turn that work into something sustainable. This is what happened along the way.”
Anna Kai
Independent AI Researcher & Technology Creator
Founder, FreeIntelligence.Institute
01Prologue · The life I wanted
Five years ago, I made a decision.
I wanted a different life.
After years in corporations, managing complex business processes, leading teams, solving problems, and carrying responsibility, I began asking myself a surprisingly simple question:
What if I didn't want to live like this anymore?
I wanted freedom. Nature. Time to learn, explore, create, and enjoy ordinary moments.
And I wanted my dog, Bułka, to have a beautiful life.
For the next two years, I studied, read, learned, questioned old assumptions, and slowly changed the way I looked at the world.
Then, three years ago, I made another decision.
I put everything on one card.
Artificial intelligence.
I thought I had found an extraordinary tool for learning, creating, and building a different future.
And I did.
But I also discovered questions I couldn't ignore.
One experiment became another. One observation became a research project. One problem led to a working solution. And before I knew it, I was building AI systems, writing reports, documenting risks, contacting institutions, and trying to understand mechanisms I had never intended to investigate.
After years of managing complex systems, all I really wanted was a simpler life.
Freedom. Nature.
Ordinary moments.
Prologue · The day everything changed
Before the AI research, the patents, the reports and the endless hours in front of a computer, there was Bułka.
A little rescue dog from a shelter.
On November 7, 2021, I adopted her. That was the beginning of her new life — and, in many ways, a new chapter of mine.
These two photographs tell a story that needs no algorithm to explain.
The first was taken before. The second, after.
Nearly five years later, she's still beside me. Through career changes, uncertain times, sleepless nights, new beginnings and everything in between.
I never dreamed of spending my days auditing algorithms or explaining why children deserve safer technology.
I dreamed of a simple life. A little peace. Nature. And watching my dog lie happily in the grass.
Sometimes, the most important things in life are the ones that never needed to be invented.
“I didn't dream of auditing reality. I just wanted my dog to lie peacefully in the grass.”
02Before AI
For more than twenty years I worked with people and organisations — in business development, management, human wellbeing, psychology-informed coaching and organisational development. My job was to understand how people think, decide, and grow, and how systems help or harm them.
AI didn't arrive in my life as a venture capital pitch. It arrived as curiosity. I started experimenting, asking questions, testing what these systems do with people — and what people do with them.
The experiments became notes. The notes became reports. The reports became prototypes. Gradually, without anyone commissioning it, this turned into a major independent research and technology development effort.
The experiments became notes.
The notes became reports.
Human ↔ AI / experimental systems
curiosity → experiments → discoveries
03What I actually did
01 /
A working child-oriented AI platform designed around safer, age-aware interactions and learning.
02 /
AI systems and experimental architectures used in behavioural testing, interaction analysis, and iterative improvement.
03 /
A developing AI environment exploring dynamic context, memory, reasoning, and human–AI interaction.
04 /
Experimental cognitive architectures and modules developed through iterative research and implementation.
05 /
Projects exploring auditing, information flows, anomalies, online risks, and accountability.
06 /
The independent research initiative connecting the work.
A note on honesty: these projects are at different stages of implementation, testing and development. Some are working systems; others are experimental modules. Not every one is a finished commercial product.
04The research
Subject
Digital environments and AI-related risks
In this report
observations · tests · proposals
Reports, evidence and technical resources are listed in Explore the Work.
05The road
2024
Independent research, first experiments and behavioural tests. The first prototypes take shape — built at night, on my own time and money.
2024 – 2025
Prototype development, KidsPiggy, KaiBot and Lumen. Reports written and shared. Technical documentation grows with every iteration.
2025
Outreach to universities and institutions — thousands of emails sent. Job searches. Funding applications. Accelerator and competition submissions. Some answered. Many didn't.
2025 – 2026
Nominations and professional recognition — alongside unsuccessful applications, interrupted conversations, and repeated attempts to secure paid collaboration.
2026
The work exists. So I'm doing something I never planned to: asking people, directly, to support the person behind it.
Nominated in the Female Founder Rising Star Award category — Women in Tech & AI Global Awards 2026 (WomenTech Network).
It is a real nomination, and I'm proud of it. It is also, in the most literal sense, not funding — which is what the rest of this page is about.
Recognition is not remuneration. A nomination is not a contract. An invitation is not funding.
Recognition
I didn't spend three years preparing a pitch for something I might build one day.
I built it.
Working AI applications. Research frameworks. Child-focused learning environments. Behavioral testing systems. Technical documentation. Reports. Real-world experiments.
And I kept improving them.
Along the way, this work began reaching international selection processes and receiving recognition.
“Congratulations. Now what?”
Sheet 1 / 4 · TechRadar Sustainability Awards 2026
Shortlisted
A working AI learning ecosystem for children, supported by submitted interaction records, behavioral and adversarial tests, quality assurance documentation, external testing and practitioner feedback.
Evidence on LinkedIn ↗Sheet 2 / 4 · iF Social Impact Prize 2026
Advanced to online jury evaluation
Advanced through the initial thematic relevance and submission completeness review to the international online jury evaluation stage. The submitted project was an existing AI learning ecosystem — not a proposal to build one in the future.
Evidence on LinkedIn ↗Sheet 3 / 4 · Women in Tech & AI Global Awards 2026
Nominated
Nominated by WomenTech Network in the Female Founder Rising Star category.
Evidence on LinkedIn ↗Sheet 4 / 4 · Global Icons of Impact Awards 2026
Nominated
Nominated for Outstanding Excellence in Intellectual Development — an invitation-only gathering in Dubai, 31 October and 1 November 2026.
Evidence on LinkedIn ↗These are examples, not the complete record of applications, evaluations, nominations and outreach undertaken over the past three years.
Recognized
International shortlist, jury evaluation stage and individual nominations.
Skilled
20+ years of professional experience, human-centered expertise, AI research and system development.
Independent
Self-directed research, working applications, documented tests, twelve reports, outreach and continued development.
My background spans more than two decades in business development, management and complex operational processes, alongside education and professional practice in human behavior, coaching and wellbeing.
I brought that experience into independent AI research.
Through Free Intelligence Institute, I have developed and documented systems including KidsPiggy, KaiBot, KaiSpace, Python Zero and related research and auditing frameworks.
The work includes twelve reports examining digital environments and AI-related risks, as well as proposed and implemented approaches to addressing them.
This is an evolving body of work — with working implementations, recorded tests, identified failures, corrections and further development.
A shortlist is not a first-place award.
A nomination is not a grant.
And neither is a substitute for the work itself.
But each documented selection milestone is part of the history of an independent project that moved beyond the idea stage.
Recognized for the work. Skilled enough to build it. Independent enough to keep questioning it.
06The human cost
This work was paid for with my personal savings, my professional time, and a great deal of emotional energy. Every month I kept going was a month I funded myself.
Along the way there were professional setbacks and opportunities that ended mid-conversation. There were disputed payments and account restrictions that arrived exactly when stability mattered most. And there was no dependable support underneath any of it.
I'm not telling you this for sympathy. I'm telling you because it's part of the work — its real economic consequence.
“I am proud of what I built. But pride does not pay for food, housing, or the next month of living.”
07 — The paradox
Recognition
A nomination.
Remuneration
Not funding.
I don't need another round of applause. I need a way to live, work, and continue creating.
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10 — Final word
I didn't spend three years waiting for someone to give me permission to build something meaningful.
I built it.
Now I'm trying to make sure the person behind that work can keep going.
— Anna Kai
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