The AI Collective, the largest nonprofit AI community in the world, today announced Humans in AI Week. The initiative features simultaneous events across more than 100 cities, June 1–8, 2026.
Every generation faces a moment when the world reorganizes itself — when the old assumptions no longer hold and the new ones haven't been written yet. This is that moment.
Artificial intelligence is reshaping how we work, how we learn, how we create, how we govern, and how we understand what it means to be human. And for most of that reshaping, the decisions have been made by a remarkably small number of people — brilliant, well-intentioned people, but a small number nonetheless.
The AI Collective believes that is not good enough, and that everyone deserves a seat at the table.
Not because the builders are wrong. But because a transformation this large — one that touches every language, every economy, every classroom, every kitchen table on Earth — cannot be led by any one room. It has to be led by all of us.
"AI will either be the greatest democratizing force in human history, or it will deepen every inequality that has ever existed," said AJ Green, President and Executive Director of The AI Collective. "Which of those it becomes is not predetermined. It is a choice. And right now, very few people are making it for everyone else. That is what we are here to change.”
Humans in AI Week unites lab leaders, investors, policymakers, and executives alongside creators, educators, and everyday people. AI will impact everyone on earth. Everyone's voice should help define it.
"Most of the industry is racing toward full automation as if that's the prize," said Catherine McMillan, Chief Operating Officer of The AI Collective. "We think that's the wrong race. The real question isn't what AI can do. It's what role humans choose to play now that it can do almost anything. That's the conversation this week is designed to have."
Humans in AI Week is the opening act of Soul Summer, a global series of community programming running all summer across AIC's 250+ chapters, designed to give every person a voice in the AI era.
We are living through the first moment in human history when barriers that have separated people — access to knowledge, capital, and opportunity — are genuinely collapsible. AI can be the greatest democratizing force humanity has ever seen. It can make the knowledge that once belonged only to the powerful available to everyone. It can unlock potential that geography, circumstance, and birth have always blocked.
But none of that is inevitable. It is a choice, and right now, very few people are making it for everyone else. Humans in AI Week exists to change that. That is what we are here to build.
Pledge your voice now at www.humansinaiweek.com.
About The AI Collective
The AI Collective is a global nonprofit and the largest grassroots AI community in the world — 250,000+ members, 250+ chapters, 55+ countries, 1,500+ events hosted to date. AIC's mission: ensure the humanity and technology advance in harmony, so the most powerful technology in history serves all of us. For more information, visit www.aicollective.com.
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