Our Human Alignment Services
Machine Alignment Begins with Human Alignment
One of the most important questions we currently face is how to ensure that our intelligent machines remain aligned with our human values.
But what are those human values and does everyone agree?
Before we can teach our technologies what we most value, we need greater clarity about what we ought to value and what kind of future we want our technologies to help us create.
Although each of us carries our own assumptions about human nature, knowledge, freedom, responsibility, progress, fairness, meaning, and the good life, humans widely disagree about all these things. How do we know our assumptions are the right ones?
That question is crucial. We can’t afford to get it wrong.
That’s why Singularity Sanctuary, through sustained conversation, philosophical inquiry, and ethical reflection, is committed to helping tech-leaders examine and clarify the values underlying their lives and work.
To surface your philosophy of life—reality, truth, ethics, meaning. To examine and strengthen what’s working and to let go of what isn’t. To explore new possibilities and new outlooks. To develop the mindset and practices needed to bring greater confidence, clarity, and humility to the human values you’re responsible for bringing to our technologies.
Three Ways to Work Together
Human Alignment Intensive: A Month Long Intensive
This focused one-month Intensive provides a concentrated opportunity to examine your values, assumptions, ethical framework, and Philosophical Profile; and to explore its strengths, questions, and potential counterapproaches. We’ll also explore the humanistic ethic and some of the ways human beings have understood and developed it across history. And we’ll learn specific philosophical practices to help you along your own journey toward Human Alignment.
The process includes private one-on-one conversations, guided reflection between meetings, conversational access as questions arise, and a concluding synthesis of the ideas and insights that emerge.
The purpose is not to hand you a philosophy, but to help you better understand, articulate, and develop your own.
Human Alignment Partnership: Sustained Reflection, Development, and Application
Although much else can be accomplished, the alignment problem itself is not something that will be resolved in a month. It is ongoing. Our values are continually tested by new technologies, decisions, situations, and moral dilemmas.
Our Human Alignment Partnership creates an ongoing space for reflection over the course of a year, with regular private conversations focused not only on further identifying and developing your values but on applying them to your real-world situations.
Together, we can examine questions involving leadership, technological development, ethical uncertainty, organizational purpose, artificial intelligence, and the future.
Human Alignment Advisor: An Ongoing Relationship for Technology Leaders and Organizations
Many of the most consequential ethical concerns emerge unexpectedly—during product development, strategic decisions, organizational change, technological breakthroughs, and moments when competing values suddenly collide.
A Human Alignment Advisor provides an independent philosophical and ethical perspective when those questions arise. For an executive, founder, development team, or organization, this relationship creates an ongoing opportunity to ask:
How does what we’re building serve humanity? How will it demonstrate our values? What must we do to make sure it does?
The purpose is not to provide predetermined answers. It is to help ensure that the most important questions are being asked before consequential decisions become embedded in technologies that may affect millions of people.
Why Singularity Sanctuary?
Singularity Sanctuary exists at the intersection of two conversations that are too often separated: the accelerating development of technology and the enduring human questions of ethics, meaning, values, and human flourishing.
Dr. Todd Eklof brings decades of experience exploring philosophy, ethics, humanism, and the human search for meaning, together with years of engagement with emerging technologies and the technological Singularity.
“Humans are nature’s toolmakers, from the Greek word techne. Technology isn’t just something we do; it’s part of who we are. There’s something human in all of it. We just need to make sure what we do with technology also reflects our goodness.” (Todd Eklof)
This work approaches ethics not as a compliance exercise, or a list of rules imposed upon innovation, or as a “how to” guide—but as an essential part of determining what innovation is ultimately for.
As technology provides us increasingly powerful ways to shape the future, Human Alignment asks us to become equally thoughtful about the future we want to create.
If you are developing, leading, investing in, or making consequential decisions about emerging technology, Human Alignment helps foster the understanding, confidence, and humility necessary to do so.