Human Agency
Does human responsibility remain supported by the capability required to exercise it?
AI Humanist Institution
Institutional development for the age of artificial intelligence.
What should an institution become more capable of as machine capability expands?
An institutional counterpart
Human development has an institutional counterpart.
Studia Humanitatis asks how people should develop as intelligent machines become increasingly capable. Institutions face the same developmental problem.
They can improve output while losing expertise. They can automate work while weakening the pathways through which future judgment develops. They can generate more information while accumulating less institutional understanding.
AI Humanism therefore treats institutions, as well as people, as objects of capability development.
The institution should develop alongside the machines it employs.Explore Studia Humanitatis →
Capability conversion
Better performance is not necessarily greater capability.
Artificial intelligence can expand what an institution accomplishes immediately without necessarily increasing what the institution can understand, judge, learn, or do reliably over time.
Machine capability What an intelligent system can do.
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AI-assisted performance What an institution can accomplish while using it.
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Institutional capability What remains as durable capacity to understand, judge, coordinate, learn, adapt, and act.
These constructs may develop together. They need not.
Explore the Capability-Conversion Problem →Four pillars
Institutional capability is multidimensional.
Institutional Integrity
Does AI-assisted performance become durable institutional capability?
Knowledge Stewardship
Does machine-assisted work leave greater institutional knowledge and understanding behind?
Governed Intelligence
Does delegated execution teach the institution how people and machines should work together next time?
Provisional institutional standard
Make capability development explicit.
The AI Humanist Institution Provisional Standard v1.0 translates the institutional principles of AI Humanism into an assessable framework for practice.
Institutions identify consequential capability, determine what they intend to Develop, Preserve, Transform, or Retire, establish how that trajectory will be judged, observe what happens, and respond when reality diverges from intention.
Identify→Commit→Observe→Respond
Conformance with v1.0 is based on institutional self-declaration. The Mirandola Institute does not certify conformity with this version of the Standard.
The institutional test
What greater durable human or institutional capability exists because machine capability became available?
Two dimensions of development
People and institutions develop together.
For people
Studia Humanitatis
A framework for developing the human capacities increasingly valuable in an age of capable machines.
Explore human formation →For institutions
AI Humanist Institution
A framework for turning expanding machine capability into durable institutional capability across time.
Read the Standard →Human beings and institutions should develop alongside the machines they create and employ.