[Emerging Ideas] Artificial Tripartite Intelligence: A Bio-Inspired, Sensor-First Architecture for Physical AI

arXiv:2604.13959v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As AI moves from data centers to robots and wearables, scaling ever-larger models becomes insufficient. Physical AI operates under tight latency, energy, privacy, and reliability constraints, and its performance depends not only on model capacity but also on how signals are acquired through controllable sensors in dynamic environments. We present Artificial Tripartite Intelligence (ATI), a bio-inspired, sensor-first architectural contract for physi