Support the human side of AI
AI is changing how people think. Almost nobody is studying that.
Billions are spent making AI more capable. Almost nothing is spent on understanding what it does to us, or on building the alternative. The Artificiality Institute studies how people change when they think with AI: how they make decisions, where they lose skills, when they stop noticing, and what keeps some people the authors of their own minds while others drift.
The researchers, designers, writers and makers working on this question publish in different places and rarely meet. The field exists. It has no home—yet. We are building it.
We are not optimistic about where AI is heading on its own. We are hopeful, which is different. Hope is what lets people keep working before the evidence says they will win, and the only way the evidence ever changes. If that is a state of mind you share, we would be glad of your company.
SUPPORT OUR WORKThe Artificiality Institute is a US 501(c)(3) nonprofit, EIN 33-4096574. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
What your gift funds:
Research. Thousands of first-person accounts of life with AI, coded into a structured record, and the Irreducibility Index of 894 occupations. Gifts fund structured primary research and multi-year tracking of how people change.
The research-to-design fellowship and lab. Researchers and designers turning findings into prototypes people can use, in partnership with the ARIA Institute at Brown University, and a working design lab in Bend. Every prototype is released openly.
Free public work. Essays, living books, research papers, reels, and a podcast, free to anyone. Gifts keep the Journal open and fund public lectures and workshops in communities that cannot pay corporate rates.
The Summit and the community around it. The Summit covers its own costs. Gifts fund places for researchers, artists, and students who could not otherwise attend, regional gatherings around the world, and the Artificiality Digital Community.
The AI side of this equation is well-funded. The human side is not.
Our case for giving. Our 2026 case for giving sets out what we have found, what we are building, and what 2027 looks like with your support.
Larger gifts, foundations and donor-advised funds. We welcome gifts from individuals, family foundations, and donor-advised funds, and we are glad to talk through what a gift would make possible. Write to Dave Edwards, Co-Executive Director: dave@artificialityinstitute.org.
