AI Humanity - Global Prosperity Through Innovation, Collaboration, and Technology

Global Prosperity Through Innovation, Collaboration, and Technology

Overview

We create innovative technologies and execute transformative programs to help the unprosperous realize prosperity

Our work focuses on two interrelated areas:

  1. We eliminate the factors of poverty in the communities where we operate; we do this by using technology, innovation, the human good, and capitalism to give the unprosperous opportunities to succeed.

  2. We inspire and enlighten the unprosperous and equip them with the tools and resources to overcome their divisions and work together to:

    • Realize individual and collective prosperity.
    • Save our planet from ecological degradation and global warming.

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.

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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.

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.

Such measures of poverty lack the precision, comprehensiveness, instructiveness, and conscientiousness we need to measure humanness, or human economic prosperity.

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.

Example of an Individual’s Prosperity Score
The following illustration shows an individual’s prosperity score, which differs from a community’s prosperity score, not shown below. More than 60 score factors (the actual measures of prosperity) are used to compute the prosperity score. The score factors follow after the illustration below.

Poor

39%
  • 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)
Unprosperous
Factors That Compute the Prosperity Score
We use the following factors (the main categories) and their subcategories to compute the prosperity score. Each category can be expanded to reveal the subcategories that are used to compute the respective category score.

Each score factor (or main category) is computed for its own measure of prosperity, the reason for the different colors and scores below. The colors and scores show the person’s state of prosperity (that is, devastatingly poor, poor, rising, or prosperous) in that specific category or subcategory.
  • Financial Comfort: The Self-Sufficiency Standard + 45%1.0
  • Personal Well Being1.5
  • Comfortable Housing: HAVC, Water, Plumbing, and Electricity2.5
  • Personal Enlightenment3.0
    • Language Literacy6.5
    • Literacy of fundamental civil rights and laws2.0
    • Basic Economics Literacy2.0
    • Financial Literacy1.0
    • Governmental and Political Literacy4.0
    • Basic Ecological Literacy3.0
    • Early Childhood Development Literacy3.0
    • Cultural Literacy1.0
  • Religious and Spiritual Freedom3.5
  • Rewarding Career (if interested in one and able to work)4.0
  • Personal Advancement and Purpose5.0
  • Stable Government6.0
  • Affordable and Accessible Healthcare6.5
  • Leisure and Social Activities6.5
  • Accessible and Reliable Transportation7.1
  • Safe and Reliable Waste Management7.2
  • Adequate and Accessible Childcare to K-12 Education7.8
  • Protection of Comprehensive Civil Liberties8.0
  • Safe Neighborhood and Sufficient Community Resources8.2
  • Safety Net Programs and Resources for the Elderly8.5
  • Personal Computing Device and Internet Access9.0
  • Reliable and Efficient Business and Finance Infrastructure9.2
  • Respect for Welfare of Partner Countries9.5
  • Ecological Safety and Wellness9.5
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE PROSPERITY SCORE

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:

  • Enlightenment

    We inspire, enlighten, and equip the unprosperous with the necessary tools and resources for them to heal their divisions and work together to solve some of humanity’s most urgent challenges, including devastating inequality, global warming, and the expected obsolescence of most humans to automation and AI.

  • 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.

  • 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

    We enable the coordination and collaboration of millions of volunteers, so that they can work with the unprosperous worldwide to end global poverty and massive inequality.

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%.

If you are interested in funding AI Humanity and want to learn how our technologies and processes work and how they work together, contact us via the Funders page. And if you are interested in volunteering or working for AI Humanity, see the We Need You page.

LEARN MORE ABOUT WHAT WE DO

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.

So shocking is poverty in McDowell County, West Virginia, for example, that many residents live in devastating poverty of the sort found in some of the most impoverished areas of Africa and South East Asia and South America. Residents sometimes walk for many miles to get to work and school. And as Sabrina Shrader, a poverty expert and longtime resident of McDowell County stresses, “people think just the children are hungry, but parents are hungry too.”

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.

There are nearly 17,000 abandoned homes and buildings in Baltimore, MD, a city with just 621,000 people.

abandoned homes in Baltimore

Furthermore, the demographics of both places (mostly impoverished Blacks in Baltimore and impoverished Whites in West Virginia) give us the opportunity not only to solve many of the enduring problems in these communities, but also to heal the dissension between cultures, classes, and races, where such dissension exists.

Drug addiction and joblessness abound in West Virginia—the poorest state in the USA. Poverty and inequality have been devastating the young and old alike.

Joblessness and addiction abound in WV Photo Credit: Vice News

When we expect to start the pilot program

We will begin early research and grassroots efforts in Baltimore sometime in January 2019. And we will begin the heavy prosperity-for-the-unprosperous work (working directly with the unprosperous and lawmakers and community leaders) in Baltimore in spring 2019. After we finalize the second location for the pilot program—a city or district in West Virginia—we will begin our work there sometime after spring 2019.

Baltimore and West Virginia

Learn More about Our Pilot Program

Join Us: We Need You

Help create the safer, lovelier, more just society you want to see and experience

To eradicate poverty and provide the unprosperous with realizable paths to prosperity, even in just one city, let alone cities in many countries, we need the collaboration of thousands of passionate volunteers and hundreds of experts. And, of course, we need funding, too.

Help others even as you yourself find your purpose and path to fulfillment.

Because of the magnitude of the work we are doing, we need volunteers like you. We cannot end poverty and help the unprosperous without volunteers.

No matter your expertise or lack thereof, we could use your help. Bonus: AI Humanity trains volunteers, who happen to be unprosperous, in rewarding careers, free of charge.

Some of the roles we need volunteers for follow:

We Can't Succeed Without You

Learn More and Apply

Our Books

To accomplish our goals, we must enlighten, edify, mobilize, coordinate, heal, and inspire

For the unprosperous to realize lasting economic prosperity and enjoy a purposeful and rewarding life in safe and prosperous communities, we need:

  • Inspiration and mobilization
  • Realizable paths to prosperity
  • Comprehensive and personalized road maps for specific groups and individuals
  • Trust, healing, and togetherness among individuals in the same group and in competing and opposing groups
  • Apt partnerships and collaborations
  • Unadulterated knowledge of the most relevant subjects and actions needed for personal success and fulfillment and community prosperity.

We cover all these matters and more in our books.

Coming Fall 2019

America's Bottom 65%

How the unprosperous Americans will work together, realize prosperity, and save humanity.

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Get Notified When the Books are Released:

See a List of More of Our Books

Road Map

We are transparent every step of the way: Track our progress

As a conglomerate with nonprofit and for-profit entities, AI Humanity strives to be diligent and transparent in its endeavors. You can track our progress and watch us transform from a small team of passionate individuals with a monumental mission, to a cohesive group that actually helps ordinary people, hopefully by the millions, completely transform their own lives and their communities for the better.

  • January 2019: The Beginning

    • 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 volunteers and experts and some potential collaborators and funders.

      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.

  • February–April 2019: Recruiting, Funding Exploration, and R&D

    • We are in the process of exploring the best means and kinds of business opportunities and structure and funding for our unique organization and are taking appropriate actions where applicable.

      Richard and a small team will begin research and development, recruitment, negotiations, and partnerships in Baltimore, Maryland, while our designers, researchers, and software engineers simultaneously begin research and early development of some of AI Humanity’s core technologies.

      Meanwhile, Richard will continue his academic and field research for the three AI Humanity books he is writing.

      We will continue to recruit experts and volunteers and collaborators, expanding our team in the process, to execute the exhaustive first phase of our plan.

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