(About)
Behind every emerging technology is a decision waiting to be made. We make those decisions in the open, with the people most affected.
Ethicists, clinicians, founders, and the people most affected.
At the heart of ThinkHumane is a belief in considered conversation. Every technology, every framework, every policy: it all touches someone.
Rather than chase the next launch cycle, we design conditions where these conversations can unfold across disciplines. Each gathering is an exercise in care, structure, and patience.
We are not a thinktank racing toward conclusions. We're a community of practice. Observers, builders, and stewards of the systems shaping what comes next.
(Our impact)
Our work is measured not in headlines but in the conversations we sustain, the people we connect, and the records we leave behind. A snapshot of where we are today.
- 5 guiding principles that shape every decision
- 3 pillars we read the future through
- 1 open invitation to anyone whose life this touches
(Faces of the movement)
“Care doesn't scale by itself. Someone has to design the conditions where the technology and the patient actually meet.”
Jonathan Richina, MD
Clinical Specialist, Google
(Guiding principles)
A few commitments we hold across every decision. Stated up front, named in the open.
- (01)
Interdisciplinary by default.
The next wave of biotechnology won't be built within any single field. We design conversations where biology, medicine, design, computing, ethics, and policy share a table from the start.
- (02)
Data rights are human rights.
When the most intimate parts of a person become legible to a system, the system inherits a duty. We treat protections for data with the same seriousness as protections for the body it came from.
- (03)
Ethics inside the design loop.
Frameworks that arrive after a launch end up labeling decisions someone else has already made. We work the trade-offs while they're still open.
- (04)
Conversations in public.
Most of the real work is loose conversation in the middle of something we're building or thinking through together, each of us teaching the other a piece of our domain. The epiphanies surface in those exchanges, and we keep them in the open. It's how we operate as a community.
- (05)
The room is open to anyone affected.
Researchers, clinicians, founders, technologists, ethicists, policymakers, and the people whose lives this technology will touch all belong in the same conversation. Especially the last group.
(FAQ)
Questions from outside the lab.
Responses from within.
Find answers to common questions about ThinkHumane and how we work. If something is missing, write to us.
