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Human Agency
Does the person remain able to choose, refuse, understand, and override?
Human Reimagined InstitutePublic consultation now open
What kind of
humans do we
want to become?
The Human Reimagined Institute is a project for human renewal in an age of intelligent machines.
Machines are becoming more capable. The more urgent question is what humans become alongside them — more deliberate or more distracted, more creative or more derivative, wiser or merely faster. We exist to make the human answer the primary one.
Read the Manifesto→A project for human renewal — not a brake on technology.
See the Standard: Minimum Viable Soul®Joined by
Researchers·Ethicists·Designers·Educators·Clinicians·Founders
Vol. 01 — Founding Consultation
Est. 2026
Prototype Standard
Open Methodology
§ The Question
The defining challenge of the twenty-first century is not building smarter machines. It is becoming wiser humans.
Artificial intelligence is making intelligence abundant. But abundance of intelligence does not guarantee dignity, agency, meaning, or wisdom. The Human Reimagined Institute exists to ask what must remain irreducibly human in a technological civilisation.
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What should never be fully delegated to machines?
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What human capacities must technology strengthen rather than replace?
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What would make an AI system worthy of trust?
§ Definition
What is the
Minimum Viable Soul?
Minimum Viable Soul is the Human Reimagined Institute's term for the minimum set of human qualities that must be preserved, protected, and strengthened as machines become more capable.
It asks whether a system preserves enough human agency, dignity, judgment, creativity, responsibility, and meaning for the human being not to disappear inside the machine.
Minimum Viable Soul is not a metaphor. It is a proposed standard for keeping humanity meaningfully present in technological systems.
§ The Pillars
The Proposed
Certification Pillars
Six dimensions of human presence that any system entering daily life with people must answer for.
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Human Dignity
Does the system treat people as persons rather than data points, users, cases, or behavioural targets?
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Human Judgment
Are consequential decisions still subject to accountable human reasoning?
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Human Creativity
Does the technology extend imagination rather than flatten or replace expression?
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Human Responsibility
Is there a clear human or institutional owner for consequences?
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Human Meaning
Does the system support purposeful human activity rather than pure efficiency?
These pillars are provisional. The founding standard will be shaped through public voting, expert review, and transparent assessment design.
§ Public Consultation
Vote on What the
Standard Must Protect
The Minimum Viable Soul Certification should be shaped by the humans it is designed to protect. Cast your vote on the principles that should define human-centred AI. Results shown are from a prototype consultation.
Which human qualities should be non-negotiable in AI systems?
Select up to 50 votes counted in the prototype consultation.
0 of 5 selected
What sector most urgently needs Minimum Viable Soul Certification?
0 votes in the prototype consultation.
§ Methodology
How Certification
Could Work
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Public Principles
The standard begins with public input on what human-centred AI must protect.
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Independent Assessment
Products, systems, and organisations are assessed against transparent criteria for agency, dignity, judgment, responsibility, and meaning.
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Certification and Review
Qualifying systems may receive Minimum Viable Soul certification, subject to periodic reassessment and public reporting.
Possible Certification Levels
MVS AwareProvisional
Recognises and documents human agency risks.
MVS AssuredProvisional
Meets core safeguards for human-centred deployment.
MVS ExemplaryProvisional
Demonstrably strengthens human flourishing.
§ Nomination
Nominate a Technology
for Review
Suggest a product, system, or organisation that should be considered under the Minimum Viable Soul standard. Nominations inform the prototype consultation and pilot assessments.