A person's documented baseline of knowledge or skill in a domain prior to any AI assistance, used as the individual reference point against which later AI-supported performance is compared.
A criterion-referenced competence assessment in the target domain administered to the user before their first AI-assisted attempt; the recorded score is the reference value, not a counted occurrence.
Proposed measurement protocol (not yet empirically validated): Pre-exposure baseline: criterion-referenced domain test (fixed item bank) scored as percent-correct, administered once before first AI use, then stored as the per-person reference value for later difference scores.
https://andreasehstandlicenseofclarityloc.github.io/augmanitai-periodic/#topic-cognition-thought