AI Advisor Disclosure

1. What the AI Advisor Is

The Societrics AI Advisor is a conversational guidance feature within the Societrics Advisory platform at app.societrics.org. It uses your completed VCTR personality profile — your archetype, trait distribution, work style, and career alignment scores — to generate personalised guidance on topics including:

• Understanding your personality profile and what it means for your learning style
• Exploring career paths that align with your archetype and interests
• Personal development strategies based on your identified growth areas
• Educational pathway guidance for secondary school students
• Communication and relationship insights based on your VCTR profile

The AI Advisor is a supportive tool designed to complement — not replace — the guidance of qualified school counsellors, career advisers, and mental health professionals.

2. How the AI Advisor Works — Technology Disclosure

The AI Advisor is powered by Anthropic's Claude API, a large language model developed by Anthropic PBC. When you interact with the AI Advisor:

• Your VCTR profile data (archetype, trait percentages, and assessment tier) is included in the prompt sent to the Anthropic API to contextualise the guidance
• Your conversation messages are transmitted to Anthropic's servers to generate responses
• Anthropic processes this data in accordance with Anthropic's Privacy Policy and their API usage terms
• MindBrood Initiative uses the Anthropic API under terms that prohibit Anthropic from using API conversation data to train its models by default
• Conversation data transmitted to the API is not stored permanently by MindBrood Initiative beyond what is necessary for session continuity; see our Privacy Policy for retention details

2.1 What This Means for Your Privacy

When you use the AI Advisor, your VCTR profile information and your conversation content are processed by Anthropic's infrastructure. While we use Anthropic's API under terms designed to protect your data, you should be aware that:

• Conversation content leaves MindBrood Initiative's infrastructure and is processed by Anthropic's servers, which may be located outside Nigeria
• You should not share sensitive personal information (such as specific health diagnoses, financial details, or other highly sensitive personal data) with the AI Advisor beyond what is necessary for guidance
• For users under 18: school administrators and parents should be aware that AI Advisor conversations involve third-party API processing and should consider this when obtaining consent

3. What the AI Advisor Is NOT

4. Limitations of AI-Generated Guidance

You should understand the following limitations before relying on AI Advisor responses:

• AI can be wrong. The AI Advisor may generate responses that are inaccurate, incomplete, outdated, or inappropriate for your specific circumstances. Always verify important guidance with a qualified professional.
• Context is limited. The AI Advisor knows only what you share in the current conversation and your VCTR profile. It does not know your full history, circumstances, cultural context, or the nuances of your situation.
• Personality typing is not deterministic. Your VCTR archetype is one lens on your personality. The AI Advisor interprets it probabilistically — it describes tendencies, not certainties. You are more complex than any archetype.
• Career guidance is generative, not predictive. Career suggestions reflect general alignment patterns between personality types and occupational characteristics. They are starting points for exploration, not definitive predictions of your future.
• Cultural and geographic specificity is limited. While the VCTR Framework is designed for Nigerian and African contexts, AI-generated responses may reflect international assumptions or references that are not applicable to your specific situation.
• The AI cannot detect crisis. If you are experiencing severe distress, suicidal thoughts, or a mental health emergency, the AI Advisor is not equipped to respond appropriately. Please contact a qualified professional or emergency services.

5. When to Seek Human Professional Support

Please seek support from a qualified human professional — not the AI Advisor — if:

• You are experiencing a mental health crisis, suicidal thoughts, or feelings of self-harm
• You need a formal psychological assessment or diagnosis
• You are making a significant life decision (career change, educational choice, relationship decision) that requires personalised, accountable professional guidance
• You need guidance that is specific to your legal, financial, medical, or clinical situation
• You are supporting a young person who appears to be in distress

The Societrics Professional Marketplace at app.societrics.org connects users with verified human counsellors who can provide personalised, professional support. We encourage you to use the AI Advisor as a starting point and the marketplace for deeper engagement.

Emergency contacts in Nigeria:
Nigeria Mental Health Helpline: 0800-MHELPLINE (0800-643-574-563)
Emergency Services: 112 or 199

6. AI Advisor Use by Young People

The AI Advisor is available to users at the Intermediate tier (ages 13–17) and above. For young users:

• The AI Advisor's knowledge base is configured to prioritise educational guidance, learning styles, and career exploration appropriate to the user's tier — not topics unsuitable for their age
• School administrators deploying the platform to students should be aware that AI Advisor conversations are processed by third-party infrastructure (see Section 2) and should include this in their parental consent process
• Parents and guardians who have concerns about their child's AI Advisor use may contact privacy@societrics.org
• The AI Advisor is not available to Foundation Tier users (under 13 in institutional deployment) without specific institutional authorisation

7. Feedback and Corrections

If the AI Advisor provides a response that you believe is harmful, factually incorrect, culturally inappropriate, or distressing, please report it:

Email: abuse@societrics.org
Subject: "AI Advisor Response Concern"

Include a description of the response and the context. Your feedback helps us improve the system's knowledge base and safeguards.

8. Changes to This Disclosure

We will update this disclosure when we make material changes to the AI technology, data processing arrangements, or the scope of the AI Advisor's capabilities. Continued use of the AI Advisor after an update constitutes acceptance of the revised disclosure.