The Living Archive of Humanity

We have a favor to ask...

OpenForAll.ai will transform how we use AI to make the world a better place for all peoples.

However, in the next few years - as artificial intelligence and machine-mediated experiences become deeply woven into our daily lives - we face a profound risk: losing touch with the unfiltered, messy, and beautiful essence of being human. 

Our emotions, intuitions, creative sparks, and the lessons forged through trial and error, and through living life, are at risk of being overwritten - subtly shaped by algorithms designed to optimize, predict, and standardize. Before our innermost thoughts and hard-won wisdom are quietly blended into data points, we must pause and record them in their purest form.

This project - The Living Archive of Our Humanity - invites every individual to share the beliefs, values, and hard-earned insights that define their unique experience. Through a series of 10 carefully curated questions, we seek to understand and record what makes us human.

By collecting personal reflections on topics like purpose, resilience, failure, joy, and meaning, we will create a multi-generational tapestry of voices. These first-hand accounts will be preserved in an open-access repository and later distilled into a compendium: a book of collective human wisdom that stands apart from any AI-generated narrative.

Why now? 

As AI systems grow more sophisticated, they will increasingly influence how we think, speak, and even feel. Recommendations on what to read, ideas on how to live, and scripts for intimate conversations will all be subtly guided by code. While those tools can enhance our lives in countless ways, they can also nudge us toward uniformity - diluting the spark that comes from our raw, unedited, and unscripted selves. Capturing our thoughts today ensures that future generations can experience humanity’s full breadth of perspectives - untainted by machine-led curation.

This effort is more than a historical archive; it’s an urgent call to action. We are at a crossroads where we can either allow our self-expression to be filtered through AI’s lens - or we can choose to amplify the authentic, diverse voices that make us human. By contributing your story - your one piece of advice, the lessons you learned the hard way, the hope you hold for the future - you help build a collective foundation of humanity.

Together, we can safeguard the intangible qualities that no algorithm can replicate - empathy born of personal experience and struggle, the spark of original insight, and the unrepeatable cadence of each individual’s voice. Let us begin this work now, while our thoughts still flow unbounded by code, and lay the foundation for a legacy of genuine human wisdom.

To this end, we welcome your personal contribution to this Archive. You will have the opportunity of attaching your name to your submission or remaining anonymous. Either way, your reflections will help to preserve what makes us human, and ultimately, hopefully, humanity.

Our only request - please don’t use AI to produce your answers. It wouldn’t be right (smile).