Feature Request: Proactive Personal AI Collaboration in Group Chats
I found an existing feature request about allowing multiple people to bring their own personalized AI assistants into a shared group chat. Since that request already covers the core concept, I’d like to propose a more specific layer on top of it: how those personal AI assistants could participate and collaborate intelligently once they are inside the same conversation.
The idea
Imagine a group chat with several people, where each person has their own personalized ChatGPT assistant.
The important part would not simply be having multiple AIs in the same chat. The interesting part is allowing each AI to understand the shared conversation and decide when its contribution is genuinely useful.
Instead of requiring users to mention their AI every time, users could choose how proactive their assistant should be.
For example:
- Passive: Only responds when explicitly mentioned.
- Helpful: Occasionally contributes when it has something clearly useful to add.
- Brainstorm: Actively suggests ideas, connects previous points, identifies problems, and proposes alternatives.
- Custom: The user defines when and how their AI is allowed to participate.
Example
Imagine Alice, Bob, and Charlie are designing a new product.
Alice proposes an idea.
Alice’s AI could say:
“This could work, but based on the requirements Alice has previously discussed with me, I think the implementation may become expensive. Here are two simpler alternatives.”
Bob’s AI might then notice a different issue:
“I agree with the concern about complexity. Another possibility would be to split the product into two stages.”
Charlie could then ask his own AI to compare the alternatives.
The AIs could also build on each other’s reasoning, while the humans remain in control of the conversation.
The goal isn’t to make AI talk more.
The goal is to make AI speak when its contribution is valuable.
Privacy and memory boundaries
For this to work safely, I think the system would need very clear boundaries between:
- Private personal memory — information that belongs only to the user and their AI.
- Shared conversation context — information explicitly available to everyone in the group.
- Shareable personal context — information the user explicitly allows their AI to use in the group.
- Group/project memory — information learned specifically for that group or project.
- Post-group memory — whether anything from the group should be remembered afterward.
The user should always be able to control what their personal AI is allowed to reveal.
AI-to-AI collaboration
Another interesting option would be allowing personal AIs to communicate with each other within the group under user-controlled permissions.
For example:
Alice’s AI → Bob’s AI → Alice’s AI
could form a short reasoning chain before presenting the useful result to the humans.
This could be especially useful for:
- brainstorming
- programming
- research
- studying
- product development
- planning
- creative projects
- solving complex problems
Users should also be able to disable AI-to-AI collaboration or mute individual assistants at any time.
Chat-specific memory
I also think this concept would become much more powerful with chat/project-specific memory.
A project could have its own memory that is separate from a user’s global ChatGPT memory.
For example:
Personal Memory
→ belongs to the individual user.
Project Memory
→ belongs to the shared project.
Group Chat Context
→ belongs to that specific conversation.
This separation could make collaborative AI much more useful while keeping privacy boundaries understandable.
Why I think this could be interesting
Current group collaboration can already combine humans with ChatGPT.
The next step could be allowing people to bring their own personalized AI thinking partners into the same workspace, while giving those AIs controlled, context-aware ways to collaborate with each other.
That could turn a group chat from:
Humans + one shared AI
into:
Humans + multiple personal AIs + controlled AI-to-AI collaboration.
I think the key design principle should be user control and meaningful participation rather than simply increasing the number of AI messages.
Thanks for considering the idea.