Terms of use

1. Agreement

These Terms of Use are an agreement between you and the Superintelligent Agents research project for your access to and use of Sia. By using Sia, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use the signed-in research release. A local alternative may be available without a Sia account.

2. Eligibility and invitation

You must be at least 18 years old and have an approved invitation to join the research alpha. You must provide accurate account information and protect access to your email, Mac, provider accounts, and authentication factors.

If you connect an organizational Google or Slack account, you must have authority to grant the requested access. Your organization may require administrator approval or prohibit the connection.

3. Research participation

Signing in does not begin task execution until you review and accept the current research consent. Signed-in research mode records raw task-visible activity as described in the Privacy Policy and Participant Notice.

Research participation is voluntary. You may use the local alternative, stop new capture where available, sign out, export records, or request deletion. Research content is not used for model training under the current alpha policy.

4. Sia software and access

We give you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to install and use the alpha software for personal evaluation and approved research participation. You may not sell, sublicense, distribute, or make the alpha available to another person unless we approve that distribution.

Sia may require macOS permissions, a supported model or command-line provider, and an internet connection for cloud and connected-app features. Local mode and some computer tasks may work without a Sia cloud account.

5. Computer actions and approvals

Sia can read and operate task-visible computer surfaces. It may create or change local files, type into applications, navigate websites, and call connected services when requested.

You are responsible for:

• Describing the intended outcome and checking that the selected target is correct.
• Reviewing consequential actions such as messages, uploads, sharing, account changes, and destructive operations.
• Choosing any broader approval or bypass setting only when you understand the resulting risk.
• Keeping backups of important files and not treating Sia as an automatic undo system.

Some applications or websites may not expose usable controls to computer access. Sia does not guarantee that every visible desktop workflow can be automated.

6. Connected services

Google Workspace and Slack connections are optional. Each provider presents its own consent screen, terms, permissions, and account controls. Sia may use Composio to broker authorization and bounded actions.

You direct Sia's access to connected services. You must not use Sia to access data or perform actions you are not authorized to access or perform. You can disconnect services independently from Sia and may also revoke access in the provider's account settings.

7. Schedules and recurring work

Sia can save one-time or recurring requests in a thread. During the alpha, local schedules run only while Sia is open and the Mac is awake. Network, provider, model, sleep, permission, and account failures can delay or prevent a run.

Do not rely on Sia schedules for emergencies, safety-critical monitoring, financial deadlines, legal deadlines, medication, or any task where a missed or duplicated run could cause significant harm.

8. Acceptable use

You may not use Sia to:

• Break the law, violate another person's rights, or evade a provider's security or access controls.
• Access accounts, systems, or data without authorization.
• Send spam, malware, deceptive content, harassment, or abusive automated traffic.
• Make high-impact decisions about another person in employment, housing, credit, insurance, education, legal services, or healthcare without qualified human review and all required safeguards.
• Interfere with the alpha, probe research-administrator access, or extract credentials, tokens, or secrets.
• Upload material that you do not have the right to share with the research project.

9. Your content

You keep ownership of content you provide. You give us permission to process, store, reproduce, and analyze that content only as needed to operate the alpha, conduct the research described in the consent and privacy policy, provide security and support, and comply with law.

You represent that you have the rights and permissions needed to provide the content. Do not use research mode with confidential, regulated, or secret material unless you are authorized and comfortable sharing it under the current research policy.

10. Third-party products

Sia works with third-party products such as macOS, model providers, Google, Slack, Composio, and AWS. Those products are governed by their own terms and policies. We do not control their availability, pricing, account decisions, or changes.

11. Experimental service

Sia is an alpha research release. Features can be incomplete, unavailable, inaccurate, or changed without notice. Outputs and computer actions can contain mistakes. You must independently verify important work.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Sia is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, availability, or error-free operation.

12. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Superintelligent Agents research project and its operators will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost data, profits, business, opportunities, or goodwill arising from Sia.

Where liability cannot be excluded, total liability arising from the alpha will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid for Sia during the three months before the event giving rise to the claim or US $100. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions or limits, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

13. Suspension and termination

You may stop using Sia at any time. We may suspend or end alpha access to protect participants, services, research integrity, or security, or if you violate these terms. Sections that by their nature should survive termination will continue, including sections about research records, third-party products, disclaimers, liability, and disputes.

14. Changes

We may update Sia or these terms as the research release changes. Material changes will be presented through the app, the website, or the invited email address. Continued use after the effective date means you accept the updated terms.

15. General terms

If one part of these terms is unenforceable, the remaining parts remain in effect. A delay in enforcing a term is not a waiver. You may not transfer this agreement without our permission. We may transfer it as part of a reorganization or transfer of the research project, subject to applicable law.

Applicable law governs these terms without overriding consumer protections that cannot lawfully be waived.

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