Capability
Capability as the Dependent Variable
Five theses on the distinction between machine capability, assisted performance, and what remains as durable human or institutional capability.
HumanitAI
Scholarship and public inquiry in the age of artificial intelligence.
HumanitAI is the publication of the Mirandola Institute, providing a forum in which ideas about human capability, intelligent machines, knowledge, institutions, and human formation can be developed, examined, criticized, and extended.
Current issue · HumanitAI · Volume 1 · 2026
The disputation begins.
HumanitAI's first volume develops the opening arguments of AI Humanism through six essays. Each advances claims intended for examination, criticism, and challenge.
Epistemic independence
Doctrine Without a Church
Five theses on algorithmic convergence and the capacity for independent human judgment.
Formation
Who Is the AI Humanist?
The scholar-citizen reconsidered under conditions in which machine testimony becomes ordinary.
Method
How a Claim Earns Trust
What the replication crisis teaches a new institute about falsifiability, prospective commitment, and public correction.
Work
The Complement Becomes the Target
Four theses on why generative AI changes the historical relationship between automation and reasoning-intensive work.
Development
The Second Door
Four theses on artificial intelligence, services-led development, and durable capability in developing economies.
Every thesis in this edition is open to challenge through factual correction, counter-evidence, competing interpretation, or argument.
Editorial purpose
Intellectual progress rather than agreement.
HumanitAI takes AI Humanism as an intellectual starting point rather than a doctrine contributors must affirm. It welcomes work that develops its arguments, challenges its assumptions, narrows its claims, introduces competing explanations, or identifies questions the framework has not considered.
What do we need to understand about human beings and human institutions as artificial intelligence becomes increasingly capable?
Forms of publication
A forum for serious contribution
Research
Original theoretical, empirical, historical, technical, or interpretive scholarship.
Essays
Arguments, interpretations, syntheses, and concepts for scholarly and informed public audiences.
Dialogues
Interviews, exchanges, debates, and structured conversations that clarify competing reasoning.
Reviews & Cases
Books, research programs, technologies, institutional practices, and consequential applications of AI.
Publication model
Digital-first. Continuous. Broadly available.
HumanitAI is designed as a digital-first publication that can publish contributions continuously and assemble selected work into thematic collections or periodic issues. The Institute intends to make published work broadly and freely available while preserving the publication’s intellectual independence and long-term sustainability.
Review status is disclosed with published work, and external scholarly review is used when appropriate to the form and claims of a contribution.
Artificial intelligence may assist editorial work, but it does not hold editorial authority. No submission should be accepted or rejected without meaningful human review.
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Claims should remain open to challenge.
HumanitAI treats publication as the beginning of scrutiny rather than its end. Claims should be stated clearly enough to challenge, supported by evidence that others can examine, and revised when stronger evidence or argument requires it.
Volume 1 introduces the Institute’s disputation model. Readers may challenge individual theses through factual correction, counter-evidence, competing interpretation, or argument. Claims that do not survive challenge are revised or withdrawn with a visible record of what changed and why.
The goal is not to win an argument. It is to discover which claims survive it.