The council
Choose priorities.
Unlock resources.
Identify neglected questions, connect the right contributors and review whether the work is progressing toward human benefit.
Leadership & partnership / A founding invitation
Put your leadership
behind human
advancement.
Effective Altruism. Applied to Physical AI.
Your judgment, access and resources can help turn an important human need into work that makes a difference.
Imagined research setting · AI-generated imagery
BRINGJUDGMENT & EXPERIENCEOPENACCESS & POSSIBILITYCOMMITCAPABILITY & RESOURCESADVANCEHUMAN POTENTIAL
01 / Find your contributionDifferent roles. A shared purpose.
What can your
involvement unlock?
Work with peers across industry, research and civil society. Help choose worthwhile questions and bring the means to investigate them.
01Executives & C-suite leaders
Turn organisational capacity into human progress.
Why participate
Help shape how Physical AI changes work, capability and access. Examine consequential deployment choices alongside peers.
What you can unlock
A suitable operating environment, an executive sponsor, engineering capacity and a working lead who can sustain the study.
A first contribution
Bring one important human need and identify what your organisation could commit to investigating it.
Prepare this contribution02Board members & industry leaders
Bring long-term judgment to emerging choices.
Why participate
Help examine the lasting effects of Physical AI on people, institutions and the distribution of opportunity.
What you can unlock
Independent challenge, experience across organisations and access to leaders who can act on useful findings.
A first contribution
Review a proposed study’s assumptions, outcomes and implications, then help connect it to the right decision-makers.
Prepare this contribution03Venture investors & capital partners
Help resource neglected, consequential questions.
Why participate
Explore unmet needs and deployment barriers through independent research into what makes a capability useful to people.
What you can unlock
Research support, relevant founder connections and experience identifying the resources needed to test a proposition.
A first contribution
Help resource an independent study or connect a relevant team to a research question, with interests made transparent.
Prepare this contribution04Startup founders
Connect a new capability with a real human need.
Why participate
Work with practitioners and researchers to understand operating conditions, practical alternatives and the outcomes that matter.
What you can unlock
A relevant system, engineering time and the willingness to share what an independent study reveals.
A first contribution
Offer a defined capability for a study and make its assumptions, support requirements and limitations visible.
Prepare this contribution05AI-native & technology leaders
Connect technical capability with human outcomes.
Why participate
Investigate how models, robotics, computing and infrastructure work together in settings where human benefit can be assessed.
What you can unlock
Technical expertise, equipment, compute, tools or access to research and engineering teams.
A first contribution
Define a bounded capability contribution, with a named technical lead and terms that support independent evaluation.
Prepare this contributionResearchers, workers, users and communities help define what counts as progress. Explore research and lived-experience contributions.
02 / The Founding CouncilProposed format
A small group with a practical commitment
Help choose the work.
Help make it possible.
We propose a Founding Council bringing together leadership, technology, capital, research and people who understand the lives and work affected by Physical AI.
8–12People in the proposed
founding group
founding group
290-minute council sessions
over the first six months
over the first six months
1Defined contribution
from each participant
from each participant
Choose priorities.
Programme teams
Investigate.
Test. Share.
Researchers and practitioners carry out the work, with methods and findings subject to independent review.
Affected people
Define what matters.
Challenge the outcome.
Workers, users and communities help shape the question, assess the experience and identify benefits and burdens.
Where organisational resources are involved, a nominated working contact would carry the contribution forward. Council members would bring judgment and access; programme teams would manage the research.
Formation stage. Council appointments and organisational commitments will be named as they are confirmed.
03 / Make the first programme possibleProposed research
The Real Work Evidence Project
One question.
A collective effort.
What does the complete system accomplish, what does it still require from people, and what new value becomes possible?
Open a working environment.
A host helps define a meaningful activity, the practical alternative and the conditions around the work.
Bring a system and its support.
Builders contribute a relevant Physical AI capability and make the engineering and human support it requires visible.
Resource the investigation.
Supporters contribute research time, equipment, compute or funding under terms that preserve independence.
Define and examine the human outcome.
Researchers and affected people assess wellbeing, physical demands, agency, access, costs and uncertainty.
The intended public contribution
A shared method and openly reported findings that help others judge where Physical AI creates worthwhile human benefit, including where it falls short.
Explore the proposed study04 / Purpose and independenceProposed founding commitments
Human benefit
sets the direction.
Effective Altruism asks us to examine what our contribution achieves, who it reaches and what the same resources could accomplish elsewhere.
Compare the alternatives.
Investigate an important need and the best practical approaches to addressing it, including simpler solutions.
Include affected people.
Let lived experience influence the question, the study and the judgment of what counts as improvement.
Protect independent findings.
Disclose interests and support. Funding and participation should confer no control over research conclusions.
Make learning useful.
Share methods, limitations and findings—including evidence that an application offers insufficient benefit.
Recognition should show what a participant contributed. Participation does not imply endorsement of a company, product or investment.
05 / Prepare a founding conversationStart with what you can make possible
Bring a need.
Bring a commitment.
Consider the human outcome you want to help advance and the contribution you can make. A focused starting point helps turn a conversation into practical work.
Text brief · Mission, participation and proposed commitments
Make organisational capacity useful.
Start with one important human need and a contribution your organisation could sustain.
- Whose life or work could improve, and how?
- What working environment, resources or team could you make available?
- Who would carry the work forward, and what could happen in the first 90 days?
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