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.
AI Humanism
What can human beings become in an age of capable machines?
AI Humanism develops the Renaissance humanist tradition for contemporary conditions, placing human flourishing at the center of the AI age.
The distinction
Human development is the object of inquiry.
Human-centered AI focuses on how artificial intelligence can be designed and used around human needs, values, and purposes.
AI Humanism turns the inquiry toward human beings and institutions: how should their capabilities develop as intelligent machines become increasingly capable?
Artificial intelligence is the condition. Human development is the object.
AI Humanism begins with confidence in human potential and the proposition that human capability is cultivable. It asks how scholarship, institutions, education, technology, and practice can turn expanding machine capability into expanding human possibility.
The Institute studies that relationship through the Capability-Conversion Problem: when does machine capability or AI-assisted performance become durable human or institutional capability?
What is an AI humanist?
An AI humanist is a person who seeks to expand human capability as machine capability expands. The term describes the human counterpart to AI Humanism’s broader intellectual project: developing the judgment, knowledge, agency, and institutional capabilities needed to grow alongside increasingly capable machines.
Four commitments
The pillars of AI Humanism
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 humanist foundation
Human capability is cultivable.
Renaissance humanism treated education, rhetoric, history, interpretation, scholarship, and civic participation as means through which people could develop their capacities. AI Humanism carries that confidence in cultivation into an age in which intelligent machines expand what people can know, create, analyze, and accomplish.
The tradition provides an intellectual inheritance rather than a doctrine. Mirandola develops its emphasis on cultivability, inquiry, judgment, and human possibility under new technological and institutional conditions.
Foundational texts
Read AI Humanism
The Mirandola Charter
The institutional principles and commitments of the Mirandola Institute.
Read the Charter →Declaration of AI Humanism
A concise public statement of the humanist project for the age of artificial intelligence.
Read the Declaration →The Intellectual Agenda
A research program for examining human and institutional capability in the AI age.
Read the Agenda →