01 · Human Agency
Purpose remains human.
Artificial intelligence should enlarge the domain over which people can form purposes, exercise judgment, make consequential choices, and act.
Delegate execution while preserving human authorship.
The Mirandola Institute
Human capability is cultivable.
The Mirandola Institute develops the intellectual foundations, scholarship, institutions, and people needed for human flourishing in the age of artificial intelligence.
We study when advances in machine capability become durable advances in human and institutional capability.
AI humanist /ˌeɪˈaɪ ˈhjuːmənɪst/ noun
A person who seeks to expand human capability as machine capability expands.
The research problem
Machine capability is expanding. Does human capability expand with it?
Under what conditions does an increase in machine capability produce a durable increase in human or institutional capability?
Machine capability What an intelligent system can do.
AI-assisted performance What a person or institution can accomplish while using it.
Durable capability What people and institutions become capable of doing because of it.
AI Humanism treats these as distinct outcomes. Better performance with a machine does not by itself establish that the person or institution has become more capable.
AI Humanism
What can human beings become in an age of capable machines?
AI Humanism asks how human beings and institutions can develop as intelligent machines become more capable.
Artificial intelligence is the condition. Human development is the object.
Four commitments
A framework for human and institutional development
02 · Institutional Integrity
Accountability remains coherent.
As work moves across people and machines, institutions must preserve coherent authority, responsibility, and accountability.
Execution can move. Accountability remains.
03 · Knowledge Stewardship
Abundance becomes understanding.
The humanist task is to convert increasingly abundant information and analysis into deeper understanding, broader access to knowledge, and stronger judgment.
Use intelligent machines to expand what humanity knows and deepen humanity’s capacity to understand.
04 · Governed Intelligence
Delegated intelligence remains governable.
Intelligent systems increasingly translate human purposes into action. Their execution should remain connected to clear mandates, meaningful evidence, and the capacity for correction.
Delegated intelligence should remain directed, observable, and revisable.
The intellectual program
Research. Formation. Publication.
Capability as the dependent variable.
The Intellectual Agenda develops a cumulative research program around capability conversion, agency, institutions, knowledge, and governed intelligence.
Explore the research →Studia Humanitatis
Human Formation for the AI Age. A contemporary framework for developing judgment, understanding, technological literacy, expression, and institutional participation.
Explore Studia Humanitatis →HumanitAI
Intellectual progress rather than agreement. HumanitAI develops, tests, criticizes, and extends ideas concerning human capability and intelligent machines.
Explore HumanitAI →Foundations
Foundational documents
01 The Mirandola Charter Institutional principles and commitments 02 Declaration of AI Humanism A Humanist Tradition for the Age of Artificial Intelligence 03 The Intellectual Agenda of AI Humanism A Research Program for Human Capability in the Age of Artificial Intelligence 04 Studia Humanitatis A Framework for Human Formation 05 HumanitAI Editorial Charter Scholarship and Public Inquiry in the Age of Artificial Intelligence 06 AI Humanist Institution Provisional Standard A Standard for the Development of Human and Institutional Capability
The humanist project continues.
Artificial intelligence changes the conditions under which humanity develops.
Human beings will shape what they become within those conditions.
We welcome conversations with scholars, educators, institutions, and others interested in developing this work.