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
Humanity is the object of inquiry.
Humanistic AI asks how artificial intelligence can be designed and used around human needs and values. AI Humanism asks how human beings and human institutions should develop and flourish 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.
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
Declaration of AI Humanism
A concise public statement of the humanist project for the age of artificial intelligence.
Read the Declaration →The Mirandola Charter
The institutional principles and commitments of the Mirandola Institute.
Read the Charter →The Intellectual Agenda
A research program for examining human and institutional capability in the AI age.
Read the Agenda →