A look back on our accomplishments

2025 Impact Report

In fewer than three years, Humane Intelligence has emerged as a global thought leader in the field of AI evaluations and in the responsible AI community. In August 2025, Mala Kumar stepped in as Interim Executive Director, taking over from Co-Founder, Dr. Rumman Chowdhury. Our strategy shift brings responsible AI and AI for social good together, and we here to meet the moment as windfall of activity to use AI to better human development takes shape. Humane Intelligence is one of the few organizations globally that offer human-centered, rigorous evaluations to responsibly unlock the power of AI for social good at scale. Below, we’ve shared a few of our 2025 highlights.

Note this page is a work in progress. More content will be added in January and February 2026.

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Our 2025 Numbers
200+

Partner Organizations

In 2025, we worked with more than 200 organizations on our events, evaluations, programs, advisory group, and volunteer groups.
68%

Red Teaming

68% of our events in 2025 focused on red teaming. More than half of our events included an adversarial testing component.
1 in 5

Better Job Outcomes

1 in 5 of our bias bounty participants reported they had better job outcomes as a result of submitting to a challenge.

Our Year in Photos

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Theo and Annie in San Francisco

Theo, our Head of Red Teaming with Annie, our Bias Bounty Data Scientist and CEO of our partner organization, Reliabl, before a client workshop in San Francisco. October 2025.

Honest Discussions at the Intersection of AI and SDGs – UNGA 80

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Past and current Humane Intelligence teammates at our UNGA 80 side-event, Honest Discussions at the Intersection of AI and SDGs. Thanks to the Heising-Simons Foundation for supporting the event. September 2025, NYC.

AI in Public Health Working Group

We had nearly 50 people our AI in Public Health kickoff call in December 2025! Special thanks to Dr. Megan Coffee for presenting on her work.

TrustCon

Linda Raftree, a Humane Intelligence board member, at our TrustCon workshop in San Francisco in July 2025.

Hamburg Sustainability Conference

Rumman and Mala at the Hamburg Sustainability Conference in June 2025 with colleagues from GIZ and UNDP. Hamburg, Germany.

AI Society House

Cara Franson of the Heising-Simons Foundation speaking at the AI Society House event Humane Intelligence hosted in Paris, France. February 2025.

Lunch with HI, Radiant Earth and Zindi

Mala with Celina Lee, the CEO and Co-Founder of Zindi, and Jed Sundwall, the Executive Director of Radiant Earth in September 2025 in NYC.

New in 2025

Read about our new programs, papers, and events we launched, as well as the new team members who joined in 2025.
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Thought Leadership

In 2025, Humane Intelligence advanced our thought leadership in AI evaluations, governance and social impact. We published several thought leadership pieces and reports in 2025, including the Red Teaming AI for Social Good Playbook. Our thought leadership was shared at the Paris AI Action Summit, UNGA 80, and other global forums, to help shape conversations about how AI systems can be evaluated and governed in ways that are transparent, inclusive, and grounded in real-world impact. See our thought leadership on our Insights page.

Programs and Initiatives

We launched several new initiatives in 2025, including our work to release our AI red teaming app under an open source software license (OSS), our new bias bounties at scale initiative, and our AI in Public Health working group. Humane Intelligence also concluded our original Google.org funded bias bounty program with the Accessibility in Conference Facilities challenge set. In total, we engaged several hundred participants from around the world, and are on track to work with even more people in 2026. Learn more about our OSS work at the link below.

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Events

Humane Intelligence convened global stakeholders through several well attended events, both in-person and remotely. In September, we hosted the Honest Discussions at the Intersection of AI and SDGs side-event at UNGA 80. In February, we hosted the AI Society House at the AI Action Summit in Paris, and in July, we held an AI red teaming workshop at TrustCon. Our remote events included several open community calls, as well as the kick off of our AI in Public Health working group, which drew nearly 50 participants. See these and more on our events page.

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Partnerships

Partnerships were central to Humane Intelligence’s work in 2025. We partnered with over 200 international civil society, academic, private sector, government, and other organizations on our programs, events and services. Some of our closest partnerships are with our service providers, such as the annotation company, Reliabl. In 2026, we’ll deepen partnerships through our OSS, AI in public health and policy initiatives.

Grants

Humane Intelligence would not be able to do its work without the generous funding of organizations such as the Heising-Simons Foundation, Google.org, and more. Our two major funding announcements in 2025 were for our OSS AI red teaming application and the launch of our bias bounties at scale on Zindi. The funding will significantly decrease the cost of AI red teaming engagements, ensure bias bounty challenges are more discoverable and easier to complete, and support our fast growing volunteer initiatives. Read more about our bias bounty at scale announcement below.

Team

Several new team members joined Humane Intelligence in 2025, including Mala Kumar, our Interim Executive Director; Dr. Julie Hollek, our Head of Engineering; and Bianca Gay, our Grants & Finance Director. Humane Intelligence’s work would not be possible without our incredible interdisciplinary team!

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A quote from one of our clients in 2025:

“The Humane Intelligence workshop I attended was the best training I have had in my five years at this company!”

What’s Ahead

What we’re hoping to launch in 2026

Our 2026 Priorities

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