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, craft, intimacy, and the stubborn fact of human nature. As machines accelerate, we gather, deliberately, to keep one another human.

The Four Pillars what we keep alive
01

Human Connection

The oldest technology we have, and the easiest to lose. We gather to practice it on purpose.

02

Human Skills

Attention, judgment, taste, conversation — the capabilities no model can outsource on our behalf.

03

Human Intimacy

Presence over optimization. The slow, irreplaceable work of knowing and being known.

04

Human Nature

Curiosity, contradiction, wonder. The material we are actually made of — worth studying, worth defending.

In a world optimized for efficiency, we choose connection.
— 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, and ethics — written for humans, not for the algorithm.

Gatherings // 03

Assemblies

Small, in-person gatherings designed for presence and depth, not reach. We meet to make meaning together.

Upcoming join us in the room
No. 01 Date & location — shared after RSVP

AM I?

A Collective Screening — Q&A with Cameron Berg

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?

The Researcher
Cameron Berg

A Yale-trained cognitive scientist, former Meta AI researcher, and founder of Reciprocal Research — a nonprofit building the empirical science of AI consciousness and welfare.

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

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.

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."

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.

RSVP for the screening

Join us, and let's connect. We'll share the location once you RSVP.

Who's Building This
Çiğdem Öztabak
Founder & CEO

Çiğdem Öztabak

A freelance journalist and science communicator working at the intersection of media, technology, and the human story — across borders and disciplines.

Luminarian Fellow ’25
Marwa Odeh
Head of Growth & Strategy

Marwa Odeh

A United Nations professional bridging global development and institutional strategy, with a humanitarian lens on technology and human connection.

Advisor
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.

By Invitation

Join the founding circle.

We are inviting a small first circle of members to help establish Humanarium's first chapter. If keeping one another human sounds like your kind of work, write to us.

hello@humanarium.co