AI Humanity strives to ensure that the unprosperous have realistic paths to prosperity. By prosperity, we mean a 21st-century, high standard of living; rewarding comforts; personal and political freedoms and power; personal dignities and autonomy; personal enlightenment, edification, and advancement; cultural and social opportunities; societal safety and privileges; justice; safety-net services; safe neighborhoods; adequate and accessible rewarding K-12 education; and protection of civil liberties. Summarily, that is the standard for prosperity we have established, and it is the focus of our entire mission.

Measuring Prosperity, Not Poverty

AI Humanity doesn’t use the common poverty guidelines, or Official Poverty Measure (OPM), used by nearly every government and NGO globally to measure poverty.

We don’t measure poverty, as it is commonly measured, since using a mere hourly or annual wage to assess one’s earnings prevents us from honestly and accurately assessing the person’s well-being, economic standing, potential, and personal liberties, among other crucial factors; that is, the common poverty guidelines can’t measure a person’s humanity.

For example, the poverty guidelines such as $1 a day, $1.90 a day, $5 a day, $25,100 a year for a family of four in the United States, and so on, don’t treat the unprosperous with the dignity and humanity they deserve, to say nothing of how unrealistic and unhelpful measuring poverty by these guidelines is.

One standard that has made an admirable effort to measure economic self sufficency is the The Self-Sufficiency Standard. But even this standard doesn’t accurately represent the reality of expenditures and well-being for a 21st-century person, not even for citizens in the states where The Self-Sufficiency Standard operates. AI Humanity still needed a comprehensive and precise way to measure human prosperity.

Introducing the Prosperity Score

For our work, to achieve prosperity for the unprosperous, we need a proper—that is, comprehensive, instructive, dynamic, precise, and conscientious—way to measure individuals’ and communities’ economic status and progress, their human prosperity. But since no such service or tool exists, we had to create our own, which we call the Prosperity Score.

The prosperity score, as illustrated below, measures and monitors the economic, cultural, social, technological, individual, political, and similar well-being of people and communities and countries.

And it goes further: The prosperity score also ensures that anyone who (or any community or country that) falls into the unprosperous zone (as seen on the illustration) is provided the necessary notifications, recommendations, and resources they need to get on (or back on) the path to prosperity. Indeed, our prosperity score is an intelligent, dynamic service that intergrates with thousands of technolgies and processes to ensure global prosperity.