# Full-Duplex AI Conversation
**Entity class:** Interaction architecture
**Domain:** Artificial intelligence / Conversational systems
**Maturity:** Developed
## Definition
Full-duplex AI conversation allows a system to listen, perceive, reason, react, and speak while another participant is still acting or talking.
## Mechanism and significance
The capability replaces rigid turn boundaries with sub-second decisions about interruption, backchanneling, waiting, and response timing.
## Relationships
- **Research dossier:** [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]]
- **Ontology route:** [[ASI and RSI Timeline Ontology#Generative Humans, Continuity, and Presence|Generative Humans, Continuity, and Presence]]
- **Primary fields:** [[Digital Human Twin]] · [[Machine Succession]] · [[Posthumous Avatar]]
- **Adjacent concepts:** [[Video Turing Test]] · [[Human Interaction Model]] · [[NVIDIA Video Full-Duplex Benchmark]] · [[Synthetic Presence]]
## Sources and provenance
- [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] — immediate source for this node's role in the broadcast research map.
## Evidence boundary
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