Humanists pass global declaration on AI and human values – Humanists UK
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10 July, 2025
Representatives of the global humanist community collectively resolved to pass The Luxembourg Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Human Values at the 2025 general assembly of Humanists International, held in Luxembourg on Sunday 6 July.
Drafted by Humanists UK with input from leading AI experts and other member organisations of Humanists International, the declaration outlines a set of ten shared ethical principles for the development, deployment, and regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) systems. It calls for AI to be aligned with human rights, democratic oversight, and the intrinsic dignity of every person, and for urgent action from governments and international bodies to make sure that AI serves as a tool for human flourishing, not harm.
Humanists UK patrons Professor Kate Devlin and Dr Emma Byrne were among the experts who consulted on an early draft of the declaration, prior to amendments from member organisations. Professor Devlin is Humanists UK’s commissioner to the UK’s AI Faith & Civil Society Commission.
Introducing the motion on the floor of the general assembly, Humanists UK Director of Communications and Development Liam Whitton urged humanists to recognise that the AI revolution was not a distant prospect on the horizon but already upon us. He argued that it fell to governments, international institutions, and ultimately civil society to define the values against which AI models should be trained, and the standards by which AI products and companies ought to be regulated.
Uniquely, humanists bring to the global conversation a principled secular ethics grounded in evidence, compassion, and human dignity. As governments and institutions grapple with the challenge of ‘AI alignment’ – ensuring that artificial intelligence reflects and respects human values – humanists offer a hopeful vision, rooted in a long tradition of thought about human happiness, moral progress, and the common good.
Adopted by the Humanists International General Assembly, Luxembourg, 2025.
In the face of artificial intelligence’s rapid advancement, we stand at a unique moment in human history. While new technologies offer unprecedented potential to enhance human flourishing, handled carelessly they also pose profound risks to human freedoms, human security, and our collective future.
AI systems already pervade innumerable aspects of human life and are developing far more rapidly than current ethical frameworks and governance structures can adapt. At the same time, the rapid concentration of these powerful capabilities within a small number of hands threatens to issue new challenges to civil liberties, democracies, and our vision of a more just and equal world.
In response to these historic challenges, the global humanist community affirms the following principles on the need to align artificial intelligence with human values rooted in reason, evidence, and our shared humanity:
We commit ourselves as humanist organisations and as individuals to advocating these same principles in the governance, ethics, and deployment of AI worldwide.
We affirm the importance of humanist values to navigating these new frontiers – only by prioritising reason, compassion, dignity, freedom, and our shared humanity can human societies adequately navigate these emerging challenges.
We call upon governments, corporations, civil society, and individuals to adopt these same principles through concrete policies, practices, and international agreements, taking this opportunity to renew our commitments to human rights, human dignity, and human flourishing now and always.
Previous Humanists International declarations – binding statements of organisational policy recognising outlooks, policies, and ethical convictions shared by humanist organisations in every continent – include the Auckland Declaration against the Politics of Division (2018), Reykjavik Declaration on the Climate Change Crisis (2019), and the Oxford Declaration on Freedom of Thought and Expression (2014). Traditionally, humanist organisations have marshalled these declarations as resources in their domestic and UN policy work, such as in Humanists UK’s advocacy of robust freedom of expression laws, or in formalising specific programmes of voluntary work, such as that of Humanist Climate Action in the UK.
For further comment or information, media should contact Humanists UK Director of Public Affairs and Policy Richy Thompson at press@humanists.uk or phone 0203 675 0959.
From 2022: The time has come: humanists must define the values that will underpin our AI future.
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10 July, 2025
Representatives of the global humanist community collectively resolved to pass The Luxembourg Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Human Values at the 2025 general assembly of Humanists International, held in Luxembourg on Sunday 6 July.
Drafted by Humanists UK with input from leading AI experts and other member organisations of Humanists International, the declaration outlines a set of ten shared ethical principles for the development, deployment, and regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) systems. It calls for AI to be aligned with human rights, democratic oversight, and the intrinsic dignity of every person, and for urgent action from governments and international bodies to make sure that AI serves as a tool for human flourishing, not harm.
Humanists UK patrons Professor Kate Devlin and Dr Emma Byrne were among the experts who consulted on an early draft of the declaration, prior to amendments from member organisations. Professor Devlin is Humanists UK’s commissioner to the UK’s AI Faith & Civil Society Commission.
Introducing the motion on the floor of the general assembly, Humanists UK Director of Communications and Development Liam Whitton urged humanists to recognise that the AI revolution was not a distant prospect on the horizon but already upon us. He argued that it fell to governments, international institutions, and ultimately civil society to define the values against which AI models should be trained, and the standards by which AI products and companies ought to be regulated.
Uniquely, humanists bring to the global conversation a principled secular ethics grounded in evidence, compassion, and human dignity. As governments and institutions grapple with the challenge of ‘AI alignment’ – ensuring that artificial intelligence reflects and respects human values – humanists offer a hopeful vision, rooted in a long tradition of thought about human happiness, moral progress, and the common good.
Adopted by the Humanists International General Assembly, Luxembourg, 2025.
In the face of artificial intelligence’s rapid advancement, we stand at a unique moment in human history. While new technologies offer unprecedented potential to enhance human flourishing, handled carelessly they also pose profound risks to human freedoms, human security, and our collective future.
AI systems already pervade innumerable aspects of human life and are developing far more rapidly than current ethical frameworks and governance structures can adapt. At the same time, the rapid concentration of these powerful capabilities within a small number of hands threatens to issue new challenges to civil liberties, democracies, and our vision of a more just and equal world.
In response to these historic challenges, the global humanist community affirms the following principles on the need to align artificial intelligence with human values rooted in reason, evidence, and our shared humanity:
We commit ourselves as humanist organisations and as individuals to advocating these same principles in the governance, ethics, and deployment of AI worldwide.
We affirm the importance of humanist values to navigating these new frontiers – only by prioritising reason, compassion, dignity, freedom, and our shared humanity can human societies adequately navigate these emerging challenges.
We call upon governments, corporations, civil society, and individuals to adopt these same principles through concrete policies, practices, and international agreements, taking this opportunity to renew our commitments to human rights, human dignity, and human flourishing now and always.
Previous Humanists International declarations – binding statements of organisational policy recognising outlooks, policies, and ethical convictions shared by humanist organisations in every continent – include the Auckland Declaration against the Politics of Division (2018), Reykjavik Declaration on the Climate Change Crisis (2019), and the Oxford Declaration on Freedom of Thought and Expression (2014). Traditionally, humanist organisations have marshalled these declarations as resources in their domestic and UN policy work, such as in Humanists UK’s advocacy of robust freedom of expression laws, or in formalising specific programmes of voluntary work, such as that of Humanist Climate Action in the UK.
For further comment or information, media should contact Humanists UK Director of Public Affairs and Policy Richy Thompson at press@humanists.uk or phone 0203 675 0959.
From 2022: The time has come: humanists must define the values that will underpin our AI future.
Humanists UK is the national charity working on behalf of non-religious people. Powered by over 150,000 members and supporters, we advance free thinking and promote humanism to create a tolerant society where rational thinking and kindness prevail. We provide ceremonies, pastoral care, education, and support services benefitting over a million people every year and our campaigns advance humanist thinking on ethical issues, human rights, and equal treatment for all.
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