Hume 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.
We envision a future where AI systems use scientific approaches to fulfill human needs. Emotional intelligence is the missing ingredient needed to build AI systems that proactively find ways to improve your quality of life.
Our work is guided by The Hume Initiative
Beneficence
AI should be deployed only if its benefits substantially outweigh its costs.
Empathy
AI privy to cues of our emotions should serve our emotional well-being.
Scientific Legitimacy
Applications of AI should be supported by collaborative, rigorous, 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.
A history of emotion science
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At Hume AI, we take this as a guiding principle behind ethical AI: in order to serve our preferences, algorithms should be guided by our emotions.
Recognizing the need to map out the emotions that animate thought and action, Hume also proposed a taxonomy of over 16 emotional states, but lacked scientific evidence.
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Prompt the first LLM for text-to-speech to create new voices, instruct emotions, and more
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