Hume AI is a research lab and technology company. Our mission is to ensure that artificial intelligence is built to serve human goals and emotional well-being.
Vision
Our vision is a world where AI translates scientific insights into new ways to improve human emotional experience. Emotional awareness is the missing ingredient needed to build social media algorithms that optimize for user well-being instead of engagement metrics, digital assistants that respond with more nuance to your present state of mind, technologies that help animators create relatable characters, and much more.
Values
We’re committed to paving the way for prosocial AI while staying true to our values and principles:
Empathy
AI privy to cues of our emotions should serve our emotional well-being.
Beneficence
AI should be deployed only if its benefits substantially outweigh its costs.
Scientific Legitimacy
Applications of AI should be supported by collaborative, rigorous, and inclusive science.
Emotional Primacy
AI should be prevented from treating human emotion as a means to an end.
Inclusivity
The benefits of AI should be shared by people from diverse backgrounds.
Transparency
People affected by AI should have enough data to make decisions about its use.
Consent
AI should be deployed only with the informed consent of the people whom it affects.
All of our work is guided by the Ethical Guidelines of The Hume Initiative
Team
We are a team of scientists, engineers, and business leaders driven by the pursuit of understanding human emotion and improving human well-being.
Dr. Alan Cowen
CEO + Chief Scientist
Dr. Dacher Keltner
Chief Scientific Advisor
Michael Opara
Applied Research Scientist
Lauren Kim
Applied Research Scientist
Dr. Panagiotis Tzirakis
AI Research Scientist
Jacob Metrick
Principal Software Engineer
Dr. Jeffrey Brooks
Psychology Research Scientist
Janet Ho
Chief Operating Officer
Alice Baird
AI Research Scientist
Chris Gregory
Applied Research Scientist
Garrett Boseck
Software Engineer
John Beadle
Finance
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