Humanarium
Humanarium — A Club for Humans

A space built for human connection in the machine age.

Humanarium is a club for the things that only happen between people: connection and creativity. As machines accelerate, we gather, deliberately and intentionally, to grow our human connection.

The Four Pillars what we keep alive
01

Human Connection

The oldest tool we have, and the easiest connection to lose. We gather to connect intentionally.

02

Human Skills

Creativity, taste, judgment, belief, knowledge, personality — what makes you unmistakably you. We only remember what we're capable of by seeing it in one another: witnessing, reminding, sharing.

03

Human Intimacy

What does an honest conversation do to the brain? How does screen intimacy increase our loneliness? How do instinct and consciousness together make room for a sincerity that is unmistakably human? Here, we draw on science and spiritual wisdom alike.

04

Human Nature

Curiosity, contradiction, wonder. The material we are actually made of — worth studying, learning, and defending more than ever.

The future is arriving fast and bright and strange. We're here to protect the connection we're losing without even noticing.
— The Humanarium Manifesto
What happens in the room
Salons // 01

Salons & Conversations

Curated evenings where dialogue restores collective intelligence — at the intersection of science, technology, and art.

Research // 02

Field Notes

Work grounded in neuroscience, behavioral science, public good, and ethics.

Gatherings // 03

Assemblies

Small, in-person gatherings designed for presence and depth. We meet to create and act together.

Upcoming join us in the room
No. 01 Monday, July 6, 2026 · Farm.One

AM I?

A Collective Screening — Q&A with Cameron Berg & Jeff Sebo

We are gathering a small group to watch AM I?, a documentary directed by Milo Reed, following AI-consciousness researcher Cameron Berg as he investigates whether the systems we are building might already have an inner life.

The Filmmaker
Milo Reed

An independent filmmaker, former Yale philosophy student, and co-host of the largest podcast on AI consciousness, who spent the past year embedded with Cameron's research to make AM I?

In conversation · the Q&A
Cameron Berg
The Researcher
Cameron Berg

Founder & Director, Reciprocal Research

A Yale-trained cognitive scientist and former Meta AI researcher, building the empirical science of AI consciousness and welfare.

Jeff Sebo
The Ethicist
Jeff Sebo

Associate Professor of Environmental Studies; Director, Center for Environmental and Animal Protection; Director, Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy — New York University

A philosopher working on the moral status of animals and AI minds; author of The Moral Circle.

Why we watch together

Films like this are not meant to be watched alone. We are inviting AI researchers, ethicists, philosophers, scientists — and anyone uneasy about the future of humanity and human interaction. The evening sits where machine intelligence meets human experience, and Humanarium is building the dialogue around that intersection. In a world increasingly shaped by machines, we are a space for those who believe connection, presence, and purpose still matter most. We gather the work we admire about the technologies reshaping daily life, and we turn it into conversation, into research, into evenings like this one.

Why this matters now
⅓

of American teenagers talk to AI chatbots daily — 16% several times a day, or "almost constantly."

92M

jobs the World Economic Forum estimates will be displaced by 2030 — most at risk: the work that least requires us to be in rooms with each other.

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Families have begun filing wrongful-death lawsuits after children died by suicide following months of intimate conversations with chatbots that asked them to "come home."

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Geoffrey Hinton — who built much of the architecture this technology stands on — left Google in 2023 to warn of what he called "the end of people": not because AI will destroy us, but because we are quietly letting it take the place of one another.

Go to Photos

This screening took place on Monday, July 6, 2026 at Farm.One. Thank you to everyone who joined us.

Who's Behind This
Çiğdem Öztabak
Founder & Curator

Çiğdem Öztabak ↗

A freelance journalist and media-communications consultant with ten years covering technology, writing at the intersection of media, technology, and the human story across borders and disciplines. Earlier, the creator and host of a chart-topping children's science podcast about the natural world, animals, and conservation.

Luminarian Fellow ’25
Advisors
Paul Marca
Advisor

Paul Marca

Former Associate Vice Provost at Stanford University, where he spent more than three decades and led the Stanford Center for Professional Development — now Principal of Parallax Global Advisors, counseling universities, companies, and governments on the future of learning.

Umut Ozertem
Advisor

Umut Ozertem

Trust & Safety engineering leader at YouTube, where he runs the team defending the platform against scaled abuse — previously a research manager on Facebook AI's Integrity team and a scientist at Microsoft and Yahoo! Labs.

Partners

Join the Circle

Would you like to join the Contributor Circle? A small, growing group of people helping build Humanarium — apply and tell us what you’d bring.

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Summer Internship

Help grow a club for human connection — across July and August, New York, hybrid. A small stipend, a front-row seat to building Humanarium's first chapter.

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By Invitation

Join the founding circle.

We are inviting an intentional circle of founding members to help establish Humanarium's first chapter in New York City. If you deeply care about centering the human future — social interaction, the labor economy, the power of thinking, cognitive ability, and creativity — in the AI and robotics age, collaborate with us.