Keeping the human person in view.

DG Humana publishes short articles and commentary on what technology, algorithms, and machines mean for human dignity and flourishing, written plainly for anyone who wants to understand them.

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01 / The work in progress

Hermeneutics in Common.

How we know, what counts as evidence, which reasons are allowed: as change outpaces our ways of knowing, the Institute is working out, in the open, a revised hermeneutics that puts relationship at the center.

Concept map · Relationship stageVersion 3

Subject and object become meaningful, understandable, and distinguishable only within, by, and through relationship.

A concept map running from Gadamer through Habermas to Ricoeur, with every claim sourced to the page and every doubt marked. Read it, question it, and help correct it.

Version 3 · Nov 1, 2026 · Ricoeur added · 162 topics · 14 open questions

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02 / Latest commentary

Current events, read for their human stakes.

Short pieces on the news, new tools, and new research where technology meets ordinary life, and what they ask of us as persons.

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Featured · CommentaryOct 18, 2026

Claude Questioned Reality. But Who Taught It to Ask?

Anthropic’s AI solved a decades-old cryptographic mystery, then questioned whether its discovery was real. The achievement is impressive. But interpreting the model’s apparent skepticism requires a closer look at the conditions under which it operated.

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CommentaryOct 18, 2026

Who Decides What Counts as a Reason?

Habermas argues that rational agreement depends on the force of reasons. When people seek understanding through argument, they treat claims as open to criticism and their acceptance as something that requires justification. An institution’s authority, a speaker’s status, or the…

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03 / What we stand for

Technology is a matter of human concern.

DG Humana is dedicated to human dignity and flourishing at the intersection of technology, algorithms, machines, and the human being. We believe people deserve to understand the systems that shape their lives, and that those systems deserve careful, humane scrutiny.

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Dignity

Persons, not data points.

Every person has worth that no score, ranking, or prediction can measure. We write from that starting point.

Flourishing

Tools in service of lives.

We ask whether a technology helps people think, work, belong, and grow, and not only whether it runs efficiently.

Understanding

Clear, careful, open.

We favor plain explanation, honest uncertainty, and good-faith disagreement over hype and alarm.

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04 / Contribute

Bring your perspective.

We welcome short articles and commentary from scholars, intellectuals, thinkers, and concerned stakeholders. Write from your discipline, your work, or your lived experience.

01Send a draft or a short pitch to info@dghumana.com.
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03Nothing is published until we confirm the final text with you.

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05 / About the Institute

An independent educational nonprofit.

DG Humana is a 501(c)(3) scientific and educational organization. It is a home for like-minded people who care about what becomes of the human being in an age of intelligent machines, and a place to learn, publish, and think together.

Status: 501(c)(3) nonprofit
Purpose: Scientific & educational
Founder & Director: Kerry Thornhill

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