# Call for Volunteers AI Assisted ## We need help This project is our first experience with crowdsourcing anything so we are learning along the way. Please forgive our mistakes. > **We believe that the best way to collaborate with the project is by building your first Pepa in your own home > or that of a loved one and share your experiences with us. Each deployment will be different for each person, > but the human condition is common among all and Pepa serves as the governed baseline.** > ## But specifically, we could use help with these ### If you care for someone, or work in care | Area | What we need | |---|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Clinical and caregiver grounding | How caregivers really handle health talk at home. Whether the eight use cases match real life. What Pepa must never do. Stories from the field, anonymized. | | Testing our explanations | Pepa must answer "why now?" on request, and so far only its author has read those answers. Read one and tell us what it meant to you (ten minutes), or sit with a printed scenario and react out loud (a conversation). Your choice. | | Voice and Spanish | Puerto Rican Spanish and Spanglish speakers, older voices, and caregivers who translate, so the Spanish has human flavor and isn't machine translated. Other Spanish dialects are welcome too. Start with [Oye Pepa!](https://starlight-page-actions.dlcastillop.com/general/oyepepa-en/) ([en español](https://starlight-page-actions.dlcastillop.com/general/oyepepa-es/)), which has its own detailed instructions. The biggest goal? A true Puerto Rican (non-cloned) voice in AI (es_PR-pepa-middle). | ### If you build, or break things | Area | What we need | |---|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Break the design | Security and privacy people, AI governance people, and anyone with their own tools. Try to break what we propose. Anyone who finds something gets credit in the dated ledger. The Reasoning Arm [Call for Review](https://starlight-page-actions.dlcastillop.com/arms/reasoning/pra-call-for-review/) is our first challenge and it has its own detailed instructions. And there are the [GitHub repos](https://github.com/prsws) to test also. | | Build your first Pepa | The best collaboration is your own deployment, at home or at a loved one's, with field notes. | ### If you can help the project itself | Area | What we need | |------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Legal or nonprofit structure | Advice on what form this should take. | | Translations | The project should reflect the way people -- not machines -- talk, especially for seniors and caregivers. | | A funding or grant partner | Researching and experimenting are expensive. Pepa has only one designer/builder, which limits the funding we can pursue alone for the federal grants we've identified. | | Advisory voices | A few people we can ask, not a formal board. | | Pepa in a Box | A concept to explore how Pepa would be deployed in an emergency (e.g. after a fall or diagnosis), which leaves a solo builder helpless because it requires a team. It could be a business opportunity for someone else, not us. We have deliberately left it undefined. | ### Ground rules _**Please never send real patient data**_, only anonymized stories and opinions, **Use our fictitious characters Efraín, Nydia and Farmacia Quimbal from our [Synthetic Fixtures](https://starlight-page-actions.dlcastillop.com/reference/synthetic-fixtures/)**. We name no one without their opt-in. Pepa is experimental software and not a medical device. Please send all assistance offers by email to the [Editor](mailto://editor@ai4aging.org), and we will consider them promptly. Thank you.