Human Agency, Freedom & Flourishing Agenda

The central question is not only whether machines can perform a task. It is how intelligent systems change the conditions under which people choose, judge, create, relate, accept responsibility, and pursue lives they value.

• Applied philosophy, philosophy of action, and political philosophy

• Agency, autonomy, responsibility, authorship, dignity, and consent

• Human flourishing, meaning, spiritual life, and plural conceptions of the good

• Privacy, surveillance, and freedom from manipulation

• Social AI, companionship, persuasion, dependency, and synthetic relationships

• Work, expertise, entrepreneurship, bargaining power, and dignity

• Education, apprenticeship, learning, and intellectual development

• Human–machine complementarity and the distribution of productivity gains

• Choice architecture, defaults, rankings, recommendation, and behavioral influence

• Contestability, explanation, pluralism, experimentation, interoperability, and exit

• The boundary among assistance, substitution, advice, and authority

• The role of human judgment in medicine, firms, institutions, and government