Wisdom for Leaders

Welcome to the Institute.

The Noēsis Collaborative created The Institute as a home for researchers, policy staffers, academics, and public intellectuals who want to help shape AI for our future. Our purpose and mission are oriented to serve the entire ecosystem by facilitating collaboration, convenings, and fundraising. As we continue to grow, you can return here to stay up-to-date with the latest salons, research reports, and funding opportunities from Noēsis Institute and our partners.

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The Problem

Shallow Humanity

Development and deployment of new AI products will continue to race to the bottom unless we can provide a new vision of progress and basic protections against human languishing.

  • Shallow Visions of Progress ➺ Material Progress, Spiritual Dystopia

  • Shallow Values ➺ Reducing Us to Our Lizard Brains

  • Shallow Policy ➺ U.S. AI Policy Aims to Win the Next War China, but will Lose the Next Generation

  • Shallow Business Models ➺ Racing to the Bottom for Shareholder Returns

  • Shallow Products ➺ Hacking Our Youth’s Social and Emotional Development for “Lifetime User Value”

Informing the
Rules of the Game

Our Solution

Our aim is to design new rules of the game by translating leading research on AI and human flourishing into actionable frameworks, models, and guidance for builders, users, and policymakers.

These new policy frameworks can win the race with geopolitical competitors while also advancing our collective well-being.

Nurturing fruitful partnerships

The Role of the Institute

The Noēsis Institute partners with the world’s leading scholars, philosophers, psychologists, and educators to provide noētechnoi with the actionable wisdom required to develop technology that cultivates human flourishing (eudaimonia) in every dimension: agency, purpose, meaning, close relationships, virtue, happiness, and health.

What We Deliver

Outputs for Influence

Our broad network of partners and experts has already begun work on an ambitious to-do list of products and deliverables designed to inform rule-setters and inspire a “race-to-the-top” policy for new AI technology.

  • Foundational IP

  • Builder-facing frameworks

  • User playbooks

  • Policy Proposals

Where Deep Tech meets Deep Humanity

DEEP TECH

AI, Robotics, Quantum, etc. 

Drives innovation cycles

Transforms industries & economies

Hard sciences as a source for breakthrough innovations.

DEEP HUMANITY

Aligns with moral intuitions

Pursues a collective vision of the Good Life

Ensures progress and serves human flourishing

Re-humanizes tech & business models

Taps into the humanities, sciences, and faith traditions as sources of insight

SHALLOW TECH

Race-to-the-bottom business models that chase shareholder returns

Chases innovation cycles

Products that hack the social and emotional development of young people in order to increase “Lifetime User Value”

SHALLOW HUMANITY

Exclusively pursues material progress, leading to spiritual dystopia  

Distorts consumer demand by appealing to the base impulses of our lizard brains 

Public policy that aims solely at winning the next battle, at the expense of losing the next generation

Senior Fellows

  • Ian Marcus Corbin

    Chair of Noēsis Institute