The Human Alliance is building a network of communities that limit technology to promote human flourishing.
Technology, particularly artificial intelligence, now poses a serious threat to human flourishing. Our response is to form separate communities where we can develop new rules to govern our relationship with technology. In other words, a Butlerian Secession.
A community whose members are encountering and solving cognitive challenges. Who can form meaningful relationships with each other. Who can exercise their individual creativity. Finally, a community cannot be flourishing unless its members reproduce enough to sustain it.
There has been some degree of tension between technology and human flourishing since the invention of agriculture. But the recent, dramatic rise in the capabilities of artificial intelligence has made the problem severe enough that this movement is viable.
Technology is convenient and addictive and provides many benefits. To limit your usage of technology is extremely hard when everyone around you embraces it. Also, the drastic increase in the capabilities of artificial intelligence demands a drastic response.
We don't know yet, but can take a guess. Something like a college campus, but with families instead of students. Private spaces would feel cramped, public spaces would feel lavish and bustling. Raising children would be much less stressful, because much of the effort would be shared. Although it will feel uncomfortable at first, it will have to provide a sense of purpose lacking in modern society for this movement to succeed.
Neither. The communities, like college campuses, will be isolated to some degree, but everyone will be free to leave them. This will be a utopia for humans as much as Yellowstone is a utopia for bison.
No. We are not opposed to technological progress that increases human flourishing. And we think there is plenty of progress to be made in developing new forms of human governance and culture that change our relationship with technology.
The earliest. We are looking for those willing to form the first communities. Then we will need to experiment with the norms, governance and limits on technology of these communities.
It evokes humanity united to resist an alien threat, because that is essentially what we are facing.
The vagueness is because we have only broad outlines of both the problem and the solution. That will improve with time. Right now, if you believe that humanity's relationship with technology is a major problem, to the point that it makes sense to form separate communities AND you believe that the fertility of these communities will be a key indicator (but not the only one) of their success, then you agree with us.
The Amish prove it is possible to form stable, growing communities that restrict technology. However, the Amish prioritize conformity and traditional gender roles. We will not. Perhaps that means we will fail, but we still need to try. We think the space of possible human societies is under-explored. We can maximize our exploration of this space by seeding many communities, letting them evolve independently and scaling what works.
Only if you are willing to join one of the communities or donate more than $25,000 of your money or 16 hours each week of your time.
We reply to all serious applications.
The Human Alliance · 2026