Scientific and Research Participation Request

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Principal Applicant

Principal investigator / lead researcher

Institution / organization

Department / laboratory / research group

Position / title

Institutional email

Research profile

Country

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Research Team

List all investigators currently expected to participate.

Investigator 1

Name

Institution

Role

Relevant expertise

Expected responsibility

Who has final responsibility for the study?

Who will communicate directly with Austin?

Are any commercial organizations involved?

NoYes

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Research Question

Study/project title

Primary research question

Primary hypothesis or hypotheses, if applicable

What exactly are you attempting to determine?

Why is Austin's direct participation scientifically necessary?

Why can't this question be answered from the frozen artifact alone?

04

Relationship to Ask the Book

Which artifact/version will be tested?

Will the artifact remain frozen throughout testing?

YesNoNot applicableUndetermined

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Study Design

Describe the complete study design

How are questions/scenarios generated?

How will novelty be established?

How many Austin trials/responses are requested?

How many model/artifact responses will be generated?

Which models/systems will participate?

What information will each model receive?

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Blinding & Contamination Control

Will Austin answer before seeing model/artifact outputs?

YesNo

Explain the procedure

Will evaluators know which response came from Austin?

No — blindedYesPartiallyNot applicable

Will Austin know the study hypothesis during response generation?

NoYesPartially

How will prior exposure to questions or scenarios be checked?

How will contamination between Austin's answers and model outputs be prevented?

How will interaction with Austin during the study be standardized?

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Outcome Measures & Scoring

Primary outcome measure(s)

Secondary outcome measure(s)

How will fidelity or similarity be operationalized?

Who performs scoring?

Are raters blinded?

YesNoPartiallyNot applicable

Will inter-rater reliability be measured?

YesNoUndeterminedNot applicable

What statistical or qualitative analysis is planned?

What result would count against your hypothesis?

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Preregistration & Reproducibility

09

Ethics / Human-Participant Oversight

Has your institution determined whether this activity constitutes human-subjects research requiring ethical/IRB review?

IRB/ethics protocol number, if applicable

Reviewing institution

Upload approval/exemption/determination, if available

Austin's acceptance of an engagement does not substitute for any ethical or institutional approval required of the researchers.

10

Data

Because Austin is publicly associated with the artifact, do not assume that conventional anonymization necessarily makes his participation unidentifiable.

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Publication & Open Science

This should not imply a right to suppress unfavorable findings.

12

Authorship & Credit

Do you anticipate offering Austin authorship?

YesNoUndetermined

How will Austin's contribution otherwise be acknowledged?

Participation alone should not be assumed to establish authorship.

13

Funding & Conflicts

Is this research funded?

YesNoFunding pending

Funding organization/source

Grant/award number, if applicable

Total project funding/budget, if disclosable

Are there commercial interests in the result?

NoYesPossibly

Explain commercial interests

List relevant conflicts of interest or relationships that could affect interpretation of the study

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Requested Participation

What exactly must Austin do?

Number of sessions

Estimated session length

Estimated total direct participation time

Estimated preparation/documentation time

Written work required outside sessions

Follow-up participation anticipated?

NoYesPossibly

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Timeline

Requested start date

Data collection start

Data collection end

Expected analysis completion

Expected publication/preprint/report date

External deadlines

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Participation Budget

Austin's requested research participation is compensated. Research pricing may reflect direct participation time, number of trials, preparation, documentation, experimental-control requirements, scheduling, interviews, follow-up work, data/publication obligations, administrative requirements, and project complexity.

Is funding currently available?

YesPendingRequires institutional approvalRequires quote/proposal first

Does your institution require a purchase order, vendor registration, consulting agreement, subaward, participant-payment process, or other mechanism?

A quote may distinguish Austin's time from unusual administrative, licensing, travel, documentation, or contractual requirements.

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Ask the Book Public Research Record

Are you requesting that the completed study be considered for inclusion or reference in the public Ask the Book research record?

YesNoUndetermined

Completed-study consideration and the mandatory exposure record are different things.

A request for inclusion is separate from a request for Austin's participation. Inclusion is not purchased, and acceptance of Austin's participation does not guarantee that a study will become part of the curated public evidentiary record.

Separately, if Austin's accepted participation exposes him to scientifically relevant novel questions, scenarios, evidence, interpretations, model outputs, or other information capable of affecting subsequent testing, the scientifically relevant substance of that exposure must be documented as part of the project's experimental history.

A study considered for the curated record may be required to preserve or disclose the artifact/version, research question, procedure, scenario set, model information, prompts, Austin's original responses, model outputs, scoring procedure, rater information, analysis method, deviations, funding, conflicts, exclusions, and missing data.

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Materials

URLs

Provide one URL per line.

Uploads

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Required Acknowledgments

I understand that this application does not guarantee Austin's participation.I understand that requested scientific/research participation is compensated.I understand that compensation does not purchase a particular answer, outcome, score, interpretation, endorsement, authorship, or publication position.I understand that Austin must be free to answer experimental questions without being instructed toward a preferred conclusion.I understand that acceptance of the engagement does not constitute scientific endorsement of the study design.I understand that acceptance does not guarantee inclusion in the Ask the Book public research record.I understand that public-record eligibility is based on methodological and disclosure requirements rather than payment.I understand that researchers remain responsible for their own institutional, ethical, legal, publication, and data-management obligations.I certify that the information in this application is accurate to the best of my knowledge.

Applicant name

Date