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.
Alan Cowen, PhD
CEO
Dacher Keltner, PhD
Chief Scientific Advisor
Janet Ho
Chief Operating Officer
Lauren Kim
Staff ML Engineer
Michael Opara
Staff ML Engineer
Panagiotis Tzirakis, PhD
Staff AI Research Scientist
Jacob Metrick
Software Engineering Manager
Jeffrey Brooks, PhD
Computational Psychologist
Alice Baird, PhD
Senior AI Research Scientist
Chris Gregory
ML Engineering Manager
Garrett Boseck
Senior Software Engineer
Chris Gagne, PhD
AI Research Manager
Zach Krall
Staff Design Engineer
Yini Shi
Frontend Engineering Manager
Nathan Leung
Staff ML Engineer
Franc Camps-Febrer
Staff Data Visualization Engineer
Jake Marlo
Product Operations
Moses Oh
Senior Research Engineer
James Cha-Earley
Director of Developer Relations
Zachary Greathouse
Senior Developer Relations Engineer
Matt Forte
Creative Producer
Brenton McMenamin
Staff Software Engineer
Mary Jiang
Design Engineer
Lydia Schooler
Growth Operations
Brian Kitano
Software Engineer II
Eva Casanova
Head of Growth
Jeremy Hadfield
Technical Product Manager
Serena Wang
Commercial Operations
Ian Kelk
Senior Developer Relations Engineer
Shahbaz Mogal
Software Engineer II
Steven Lai
Staff Software Engineer
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