Prioritise
neglected needs.
Direct effort toward important problems where an additional contribution can make a meaningful difference.
An emerging Physical AI research consortium
Engineering for Human Value.
Shared Human Advancement through Physical AI Research and Engineering.
Effective Altruism. Applied to Physical AI.
Directing physical intelligence toward the greatest positive impact we can achieve.
GUIDED
BYEFFECTIVE ALTRUISM FOCUSED
ONPHYSICAL AI FOR
SHAREDHUMAN ADVANCEMENT THROUGHRESEARCH & ENGINEERING
BYEFFECTIVE ALTRUISM FOCUSED
ONPHYSICAL AI FOR
SHAREDHUMAN ADVANCEMENT THROUGHRESEARCH & ENGINEERING
01 / What SHARE stands forOur name. Our purpose.
Effective Altruism.
Applied to Physical AI.
Shared Human Advancementthrough Physical AIResearch and Engineering.
Our purpose is human advancement. Our field is Physical AI. We bring leadership, research, engineering and lived experience together to turn that purpose into practical work.
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02 / Our guiding commitmentPurpose, made practical
Compassion sets
the purpose.
Evidence guides
the work.
SHARE applies the principles of effective altruism to Physical AI: identify important, neglected needs, compare practical alternatives, and test where research and engineering can make the greatest positive difference.
Our focus is the complete human outcome: wellbeing, agency, opportunity and the distribution of benefits and burdens—today and over time.
Explore the principles of effective altruismPrioritise
Compare
the alternatives.
Consider the best practical approach, including simpler solutions. Account for costs, constraints and what else those resources could achieve.
Test
the human benefit.
Examine who gains, who carries new burdens, what remains uncertain and what evidence should change our direction.
Livelihoods & shared access
More possibility.
More people.
How could Physical AI support livelihoods, strengthen local capability and widen access to essential resources?
Illustrative concept · AI-generated imagery03 / Leadership & partnershipA founding invitation
For those who can make progress possible
Bring your influence.
Advance human potential.
Leadership can open a working environment, commit engineering capacity, mobilise resources and help useful findings reach an industry.
We invite executives, board members, investors, founders and technology leaders to help shape SHARE and make its first research programmes possible.
Explore leadership & partnershipA proposed Founding Council, connected to research teams and the people whose lives and work Physical AI affects.
04 / Research agendaFounding questions · Proposed
Questions worth
working on.
Study the relationship between intelligent machines, the systems around them and the lives they affect.
01Human benefit
What improves in people's lives—and compared with what?
The investigation
Compare a defined Physical AI application with the best practical alternative. Examine the scale and duration of benefit, full resource costs, uncertainty and potential harm.
What progress could look like
A transparent evaluation method connecting technical performance with wellbeing, time, independence and access, with assumptions available for scrutiny.
02Agency and work
How can capability grow while people retain meaningful control?
The investigation
Study changes in physical demands, judgment, authority, skills and the organisation of work. Include the people who perform, maintain and supervise the activity.
What progress could look like
Field studies showing where human–robot work expands capability and where it introduces dependency, hidden effort or reduced discretion.
03Deployment reality
What does reliable performance require from the whole system?
The investigation
Examine models, machines, sensing, environments, safety, maintenance and recovery together. Make human interventions, workarounds and operating limits visible.
What progress could look like
A reproducible work evidence record connecting completion, reliability and recovery with human support, cost and the conditions of deployment.
04Access and distribution
Who can participate, who gains and who carries the costs?
The investigation
Study affordability, accessibility, ownership and local support. Consider people with limited influence over how technology is chosen and deployed.
What progress could look like
Comparative studies of deployment choices that show how benefits and burdens are distributed across workers, users, communities and organisations.
05New possibilities
What valuable activity can physical intelligence make possible?
The investigation
Identify useful capabilities and services that are currently unavailable, impractical or inaccessible. Start with a human need and investigate the complete system required to address it.
What progress could look like
Testable opportunity briefs, grounded in lived needs, with a credible path to benefit and clear reasons to continue, adapt or stop.
06Shared learning
How can knowledge travel across machines, places and people?
The investigation
Study how data, context, memory, skills and failure evidence can be reused responsibly. Identify the assumptions and conditions that limit transfer.
What progress could look like
Open reporting formats and reproducible studies that help others build on findings, including unsuccessful approaches and the boundaries of what works.
05 / First programmeProposed study
Human capability & physical work
Support the person.
Improve the work.
Where can physical intelligence reduce demanding effort while preserving human skill, judgment and agency?
Illustrative concept · AI-generated imageryFrom a successful demonstration to a useful system
The Real Work
Evidence Project.
What does the complete system accomplish, what does it still require from people, and what new value becomes possible?
We propose a shared method for documenting Physical AI in actual working conditions, connecting technical performance with the human and economic conditions behind it.
- Observe
- The whole activity: completion, intervention, recovery and maintenance.
- Compare
- The practical alternative, full costs and quality of the human outcome.
- Share
- Methods, conditions, limitations and findings others can use.
06 / The people behind the workParticipants & contributors
Shared purpose.
Individual contributions.
People, companies and organisations can contribute to SHARE. Each profile connects a person or team with their role in SHARE, their commitment and the work they help make possible.
A person. A perspective.
Leaders, researchers, practitioners and people with lived experience, with their capacity and contributions made clear.
A company. Its contributors.
Participating companies, their contribution to SHARE and the individual people contributing through them.
An organisation. Its people.
Research institutions, nonprofits and other organisations, with their focus and named contributors.
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The founding directory
Make your contribution part of the story.
Confirmed profiles will show each participant’s role in SHARE, their commitments, research focus and named contributors.
Apply to join SHARE07 / ParticipationMany kinds of knowledge
A shared future
takes shared effort.
Leadership can unlock resources. Research and engineering can test possibilities. Workers, users and communities can show what matters in practice. SHARE needs these perspectives together.
Leadership & partnership
Make the work possible.
Help shape priorities, open a field setting, contribute a capability or resource an independent study.
Explore your leadership contributionResearch & lived experience
Bring what you know.
Bring a question, investigate a claim or share the realities of the work and the people affected.
Prepare a research contributionStart with the need.
Describe whose life or work could improve, what is missing today, and why the question deserves attention. Connect it to a research area above.
A personal preparation outline. Downloading does not submit an application.