What We Do
Humane Product Design: Building Products That Prioritize People
To build a technology that serves society, we need to account for three things:
- The Technology's strengths and limitations.
- The Complex Systems it exists within, including incentives, cultural norms, race-to-the-bottom dynamics, and more.
- Human Psychology, which inevitably influences how we interact with technology.
Our Principles of Humane Technology, introduced below, offer a framework for integrating all three and building technology products that are more humane as a result.
Our systemic approach
Our dual strategy cultivates an informed public and drives structural change through policy — two mutually reinforcing levers.
Our public awareness work surfaces emerging harms — from open-source exploitation to chaotic actors and runaway AI — helping people understand not just what’s happening, but why it matters. This builds the engaged constituencies needed for lasting political change. Our policy team tracks these risks closely and is poised to move quickly when the political moment ripens, knowing that the biggest threats often surface before the solutions are actionable. This dynamic loop ensures we stay ahead of accelerating harms while driving real, systemic change.
