Ask Humanity asks the same 20 questions to everyone — scientists, artists, founders, teachers, neighbours — and listens carefully to the answers. It is the public face of The Alignment Interviews, a project of the AGI Future Foundation.
The answers will build a dataset called The Human GraphPlanned — it does not exist yet. The ambition is to ask 10,000 people; that is a goal, not a count of answers received. The sameness is the method: the same questions, in the same words, so that answers from very different lives can sit side by side and be compared.
How to answer
For now, answers come in by email — plainly, that is the current way in. Pick any questions you like; the starred ★ questions are the Top 10 core set if you want a shorter path. Write as much as you like — there are no length limits. Answer anonymously, or claim as much or as little identity as you like. You are also welcome to suggest new questions.
The form below composes an email to research@fellowship.chat for you. If you would like to answer in your own voice, you may attach an audio or video recording to your email — for now, answers arrive by email text or by an attached recording.
The 20 questions
★ marks the Top 10 core set.
1.Values & Meaning
1.★ When you look back, what is a moment when you felt, "This is what I'm here for" — what was happening, and what did it teach you about what matters?
2.What do you believe is worth doing even if it never makes money, never gets recognition, and nobody ever claps for it?
3.★ If you had to name three values you would refuse to trade away for success, what are they — and when were they hardest to hold on to?
4.What does a good life look like for you in ordinary, daily terms — not the highlight reel, but a good Tuesday?
2.Craft & Mastery
5.★ What do you do almost every day that most people in your field skip — and that quietly explains a lot of your results?
6.★ Tell me about a specific piece of work you are proud of. What was the hardest decision inside it, and how did you make that decision?
7.What did you believe about your craft ten or more years ago that you now know is wrong?
8.How do you know when something is good enough to share, ship, or release — and how do you know when it is not ready yet?
3.Fear, Failure & Doubt
9.★ What was your most useful failure — what happened, what did it cost you, and what did you do differently afterwards?
10.When you are afraid or full of doubt in the middle of something hard, what do you actually do? Walk me through a real time when it happened.
11.What are you still bad at, or still avoiding, even after everything you have achieved?
12.★ What fear, if you let it run your life, would shrink it the most — and how do you stop it from doing that?
4.The Machine Age
13.★ As machines get better at thinking, creating, and deciding, what part of being human do you think we must protect at all costs?
14.Where would you never want a machine to make the final call in your field — and why do you draw the line there?
15.★ If a very powerful AI could ask you for guidance on how to treat people, what is the one thing you would most want it to understand?
16.What gives you real hope about a future with intelligent machines — not wishful thinking, but something you have actually seen?
5.Advice & Legacy
17.★ What advice would you give a talented 20-year-old starting out in your field today — the thing almost nobody tells them?
18.If you could leave one true sentence for someone 100 years from now who is stuck in the same place you have been stuck, what would that sentence be?
19.Who taught you the most important lesson of your life — who were they, and can you tell me about the moment they taught it to you?
20.★ When your work is done, what do you most want people to feel, understand, or be able to do because you were here?