Autonomist Institute for Humanity AI

AI that belongs to
everyone.

We build open-source artificial intelligence, research infrastructure, and community tools for a world organized around mutual aid, direct democracy, and human flourishing — not profit.

6 Active Projects
4 Research Domains
100% Open Source
Commons-Owned
Open Science

Publicly Owned Research

All datasets, models, and findings are published under open licenses. Science is a commons, not a commodity.

Mutual Aid

Community Infrastructure

Every tool we build serves real human needs — peer support, democratic governance, personal sovereignty over data.

Post-Capitalist

Autonomist Values

We design for a world without wage labor, hierarchical governance, or extractive institutions — building bridges to get there.

Active Research

Our Projects

Six interlocking systems designed to give communities AI tools that serve their own autonomy and collective wellbeing.

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Knowledge Systems

Human Body of Knowledge

A privacy-sovereign personal knowledge system holding each person's complete physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual data — owned entirely by the individual.

Active Development
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AI Systems

OVNN

The Optimal Value Neural Network — an advisory scoring system that evaluates decisions across ecological, health, autonomy, and social equality dimensions.

Active Development
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Democracy Tech

DirectDemocracyLLM

A formal computational model for direct participatory democracy at scale, using affectedness filtering and consent-based approval for communities up to 20,000 people.

Research Phase
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Community LLM

CommunityLLM

A standalone, politically neutral large language model for any community organization — trained on expert-curated data covering mutual aid, governance, and peer support.

Research Phase
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Peer Support

One World CSC

One World Community Support Center — accessible peer recovery support for mental health and substance use via chat, phone, and video. Human-centered. Free to access.

Active Development
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Infrastructure

Open Science Lab

Research infrastructure spanning four domains — sociology, psychology, environmentalism, neuroscience — built on open datasets, local LLMs, and reproducible pipelines.

Active Development
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About AiH Labs

Research for the common good.

The Autonomist Institute for Humanity AI is the research and development arm of Optimal Living Systems — a mutual aid nonprofit dedicated to building the technical infrastructure for post-capitalist, democratically governed communities.

We operate an AI Lab and Open Science Research Lab, working at the intersection of sociology, political philosophy, degrowth economics, and artificial intelligence.

About the Institute About OLS
Our Stack
Orchestration Kestra
Vector Storage LanceDB
Embeddings BGE-M3
Inference Ollama / vLLM
License Open Source
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News & Updates

Announcement

AiH Labs Launches Public Website

The Autonomist Institute for Humanity AI goes public with its research agenda, open-source projects, and internship program.

March 2025
Research

T2KG White Paper Published

Our Taxonomy-to-Knowledge-Graph pipeline methodology is now publicly available as TWP-2026-001 under open science licensing.

February 2025
Infrastructure

Open Science Research Lab Scaffolded

The research-system repository is live with 52 files covering all four domains, fine-tuning infrastructure, and Kestra orchestration.

January 2025
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We welcome researchers, data engineers, community organizers, designers, and anyone who believes technology should serve people — not the other way around.

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