We know precisely how to help the unprosperous realize prosperity, and we have the tools and resources to succeed; we therefore feel morally responsible to execute our comprehensive plan and have thus committed our life to this endeavor.
Overview
We create innovative technologies and execute transformative programs to help the unprosperous realize comprehensive prosperity
Our work focuses on two interrelated areas:
- Individual prosperity:
We provide the unprosperous access to resources, programs, technologies, rewarding education, rewarding careers, and financial capital (where necessary) to overcome the factors of poverty and to work towards comprehensive individual prosperity.
- Collective and community prosperity:
Because institutionalized factors—at the national, local, and cultural levels—significantly perpetuate poverty and pathological inequality and hinder the unprosperous from rising to prosperity, we enlighten, equip, and inspire the unprosperous and provide them the tools and resources they need to work together, with a strong sense of purpose, to overcome the toughest institutionalized challenges and to take a leading role in realizing their own individual and community prosperity.
Enough wealth in the global economy
to make every human prosperous, yet ...
From The United States
To The Congo
From India
To Brazil
In most countries, most people are economically depressed —
they lack the resources necessary for a purposeful and rewarding life
We believe we know how to alleviate this extraordinarily complex problem
in many regions of the world
Who Are the Unprosperous?
Three groups—the struggling middle class, working poor, and devastatingly poor—make up the unprosperous
The unprosperous lack the economic resources, financial earnings, community necessities, and personal enlightenment and liberties to live a comfortable and rewarding 21st-century life. They earn less than is necessary to be recognized today as comfortable beyond self-sufficiency.
- Struggling Middle Class
- Working Poor
- Devastatingly Poor
The struggling middle class (that is, most of the middle class) today can be suitably termed the under-self-sufficient class, considering their economic reality is one of under self sufficiency, when their income is assessed for realistic self sufficiency—that is The Self-Sufficiency Standard + 35%. And that doesn’t measure prosperity; it measures just the bare essentials for an economic self-sufficient existence.
From a teacher making $52,000 per year in Florida to a secretary making $28,220 per year in São Paulo, from an accountant making ‘₹’250,000 per year ($3,375 per year) in Mumbai to an administrative assistant making $8,844 per year in Lagos, the struggling middle class have no shortage of well-educated people with well-respected jobs. Yet these professionals are all economically depressed, living paycheck to paycheck or worse, due to the lopsided changes in capitalism in the 1980s and the subsequent economic ramifications—including near stagnation of wages and the steep rise in the cost of living—during that period and especially over the last 10 years.
How we help the struggling middle class realize prosperity
Many of our programs, as detailed on our What We Do page, help the struggling middle class move from under-self-sufficiency to prosperity. These programs include: Humanity-First Capitalism, Entrepreneurship, Healthcare, Advocacy, Safety Net Programs, Policy Oversight, Prosperity Monitoring, Community Development, Sports, Personal Edification, Personal Well-Being, and Personal Advancement.
What we mean by "Prosperity"
We have created a comprehensive and quantifiable standard to measure and monitor human prosperity
AI Humanity strives to enable the unprosperous with realizable paths to prosperity. By prosperity, we mean a high standard of living; financial comfort; ample time daily for work, exercise, and leisure; a rewarding career or access to financial capital for entrepreneurship; personal dignities and autonomy; justice, including treatment services, not criminalization, for addiction, and sensible and fair criminal justice laws; safety-net services; safe neighborhoods; adequate and accessible rewarding K-12 education; and protection of civil liberties, to name some of the factors of prosperity.
Example of an Individual’s Prosperity Score
Poor
- 0Devastatingly Poor
- 30%Poor
- 50%Rising
- 70%Prosperous100%
- Ecological Ceiling As Kate Raworth warns in Doughnut Economics, "[This boundary marks] an overshoot of pressure on Earth's life-giving systems, such as through climate change, ocean acidification and chemical pollution." (p. 39)
What We Do
Our exhaustive plan tackles prosperity for the unprosperous from every solvable angle
AI Humanity creates a number of integrated technologies, strategies, and programs to accomplish our goals in the following manner:
Inspiration and Enlightenment
We inspire, enlighten, and equip the unprosperous with the necessary tools and resources they need—both individually and collectively—to pursue individual and collective prosperity.Advancement and Innovation
We create innovative programs and technologies and accumulate the necessary resources to help the unprosperous with realizable opportunities for prosperity. These include access to rewarding education towards rewarding careers, capital for entrepreneurship, and resources for innovation.Aid Optimization
We help tens of thousands of organizations and governmental programs collaborate and coordinate and optimize to more effectively eliminate the factors of poverty.Collaboration and Collective Intelligence
We enable the coordination and cooperation of thousands and potentially hundreds of thousands of people to work together—via collective human intelligence—on specific projects toward common goals and and the advancement humanity..
In addition, “we exploit the blindspots of capitalism to help optimize the dynamism of the economy to directly improve the wealth and standard of living of the unprosperous," as Richard Bovell describes in his forthcoming book The 65%.
Pilot Program
We will begin our work in two cities: Baltimore, Maryland, and a yet-to-be-determined city in West Virginia
We have selected Baltimore, Maryland, as the first of two cities to participate in our pilot program. Although we haven’t yet finalized the location of the second city, we believe an impoverished area of West Virginia, the poorest state in the United States and a location proximal to Baltimore, may be ideal.
The poverty in Baltimore (urban) and most parts of West Virginia (rural and semi-rural) is so severe and widespread and shocking that these areas may not seem to be part of the United States, the richest country in the world.
The myriad of problems in these communities exemplify the endemic, institutionalized social, economic, class, and race problems that have plagued the United States for decades—the very problems AI Humanity has set out to solve.
Join Us: We Need You
Help create the safer, lovelier, more just society you want to see and experience
To provide the unprosperous with realizable paths to prosperity, even in just one city, let alone cities and rural communities across the globe, we need to hire and partner with relentless, innovative people who possess a revolutionary disposition and audacious spirit. How else can we help the unprosperous rise to universal comprehensive prosperity against nearly impossible odds? How else can we succeed where many others have failed for decades and even centuries and after spending hundreds of billions of dollars?
Help others even as you yourself find your purpose and path to fulfillment.
- Experts
- Funders
We need collaborators and experts in myriad areas of specializations. We are taking applications now. We need experts as part-time and full-time contractors as well as full-time employees over the coming weeks and months.
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Learn More and ApplyOur Books
To accomplish our goals, we must enlighten, edify, mobilize, coordinate, heal, and inspire
Coming Fall 2020
Universalprosperia
More desirable and enduring than the American dream. The prosperity America’s bottom 65% deserves and how we will achieve it
Wakanda Now
A comprehensive road map for a real-world Wakanda—in an American city
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Road Map
We are transparent every step of the way: Track our progress
AI Humanity strives to be diligent and transparent in its endeavors, even as a for-profit technology-driven startup. You can track our progress along the way.
2017–2018: Research and Planning
Richard Bovell, the founder of AI Humanity, recruited some of the exceptional students from Bov Academy of Programming to begin the early research and technological exploration for AI Humanity’s extensive solutions to solve global poverty.
January 2019: Website Deployment
With about 98% of the work on the main AI Humanity website now complete, we will officially launch the website to the public in early January 2019.
The January 2019 version of the website outlines our mission, strategies, philosophies, processes, and early milestones. The target audience comprises mostly experts and some potential collaborators.
This website is not intended for the unprosperous to use for help with overcoming poverty and realizing prosperity. The unprosperous will realize prosperity via our specific prosperity-for-the-unprosperous projects (for example, AllAid, Eduprosperity, RewardingEducation, and Entrepreneurship), which will become available as we launch each project or strategy later in 2019 and onward.
January–July 2019: MVP and R&D
We are in the process of developing our Minimum Viable Product (MVP), which includes three integrated technologies buoyed by AI and the human good. These technologies work together to help the unprosperous with all of their needs—starting with critical needs, then personal enlightenment, then rewarding education, followed by rewarding career.
Richard and a small team will begin research and development, recruitment, negotiations, and partnerships in Baltimore, Maryland.
Meanwhile, Richard will continue his academic and field research for the three AI Humanity books and related speeches and courses.
We will continue to recruit experts and collaborators, expanding our team in the process, to execute the exhaustive first phase of our plan.
August 2019: Start of Pilot Program in Baltimore, MD
In early August, we expect to officially launch our pilot program in Baltimore, MD, with over 2,000 participants, all of whom we will help with all of their needs, free of charge, until they realize comprehensive prosperity—the prosperity we describe on our Prosperity Score page.
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