We bring people together to discover what makes us uniquely human and turn those insights into a guide for how we live, work, and lead alongside AI.
Join the WaitlistDefining what makes us human so AI never forgets.
The Old Promise Is Breaking
For generations, the deal was simple: learn a skill, find a job, build an identity. AI is dissolving that link. Not just reshaping work, but destabilizing the story we tell ourselves about who we are and what we're for. The question isn't how to compete with machines. It's how to remember what makes us human.
Our Mission
What is HUM?
Map the Human Gap
We bring together people for carefully held conversations about sensation, emotion, intuition, values, and togetherness, mapping where humans remain essential because algorithms struggle with ambiguity, lived experience, and value-laden choices.
Turn Dialogue Into Tools
We turn those conversations into practical, evolving tools: shared language, human-capability frameworks, and cross-cultural resources so educators, therapists, and AI builders can design systems that center human empathy and long-term vision.
Build Resilient Communities
We use this map to build more resilient, adaptable, and optimistic communities by running workshops where people learn what humans are uniquely good at, what AI is actually good at, and how they fit together.
What We Explore
The Things Only Humans Can Do
Attuning to the people around us. Caring beyond what can be calculated.
Showing up in shared space. Reading the room. Co-regulating in real time.
Making decisions when the data runs out and only lived experience can guide the way.
Imagining what doesn't yet exist. Making something new from what we've lived through.
Finding purpose in uncertainty. Holding a long-term vision when the path isn't clear.
Our Sessions
Every Tuesday in Austin
The future needs more than code — it needs consciousness. Members contribute experiences and collaboratively develop understanding of human capabilities.
The Structure
How HUM Works
Workshops
The DoorFacilitated experiences for organizations and teams ready to invest in the human side of their work. A first step into what HUM offers.
Chapters
The CoreSmall ongoing groups of up to six people, guided by structured roles and shared intention, meeting regularly for deep dialogue about what makes us human.
Certification
The StandardA facilitator pathway ensuring every HUM conversation is held to a standard: Participant, Candidate, Apprentice, Certified.
The Repository
The Living RecordEverything HUM learns gets documented. Over time, these conversations become a growing, open body of knowledge about what it means to be human.
March 13, 2026
Find Us at SXSW
Join us for a one-hour HUM lounge experience. Conversation cards, journaling stations, and the chance to explore what makes us human, firsthand. No pitch. No panel. Just presence.
Ireland House · Austin, TX
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