ai impact area

Investing

Align the investment community with humanity-first principles by discouraging funding of harmful AI and promoting ethical innovation.

Capital determines what scales.

AI is advancing at venture speed. The incentives behind it will define its impact.

If capital rewards speed without accountability, that scales.

If capital rewards long-term human value, that scales instead.

Our work focuses on the leverage point where capital shapes infrastructure: ensuring AI investment reflects responsibility, transparency, and durable value creation.

the problem

What We're Seeing

Markets are moving faster than ethical discipline.

AI capital formation is accelerating without consistent screening standards.

• Ethical AI diligence is fragmented or superficial

• LP scrutiny of AI exposure is increasing

• ESG frameworks rarely address AI-specific risk in depth

• Harmful applications can attract funding before consequences are clear

• Responsible innovation is not systematically rewarded

• Underrepresented regions remain structurally undercapitalized

Capital is shaping AI’s trajectory - but not yet with sufficient coordination or shared standards.

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Awareness

Key Issues

Unproven ethical AI claims

Companies and funds may advertise their AI as safe or responsible without proof. Investors can end up backing promises that aren't true.

No shared yardstick

There's no common, checkable way to measure whether a company uses AI responsibly. Company reports stay vague and hard to compare, so good practice goes unrewarded.

AI investment scams

Scammers use deepfake videos, AI-written messages and fake trading sites to pose as people you trust and steer savings into fake investments.

Trusting AI money advice

People now ask chatbots and apps what to invest in. These tools can sound confident while getting facts wrong, and they may not follow the rules a licensed adviser must.

Overlooked regions

AI funding flows to a small number of companies in a few countries. Good ideas elsewhere go unfunded, and much of the world ends up using AI it had no say in building.

Layoffs blamed on AI

Some companies blame layoffs on AI when the real cause is a struggling business. Bad news gets dressed up as progress, which can prop up the stock and mislead investors.

our role