Research Institute Netherlands for Harmonizing Human and AI Intelligence
Groningen, Netherlands
When AI becomes the environment, what happens to the people living inside it?
We study what AI does to people — not what people do with AI.
Independent Dutch research foundation • established 2025.
Context
Orientation
AI is no longer a tool you pick up and put down. It has become the medium — the thing you read through, decide through, judge through.
The question we keep asking is not how capable the AI is. It's what happens to the person using it.
Attention
What happens to your ability to think when the thinking is increasingly outsourced?
Collaboration
Under what conditions does working with AI make people more capable — and when does it do the opposite?
Trust
How do shared meaning and coordination hold up when the information layer is mediated by AI?
What we do
Research, field work, guidance
Three reinforcing lanes: theory, field collaborations, and governance guidance — translated into practical review lenses for real deployments.
The measure of good technology is whether it deepens care, responsibility, and mutual respect.
Research & theory
Frameworks spanning cognition, ethics, and complex systems — grounded in what humans need to flourish.
Field collaborations
Partner work to understand how AI mediation changes learning, judgment, coordination, and relationships.
Governance & design guidance
Principles and review lenses — so systems reflect the future we hope for.
Questions that matter to real lives
When AI becomes an environment, the core question changes: what happens to attention, agency, and meaning inside a mediated world?
Studying what holds, as systems accelerate.
Researcher looking to collaborate? Institution navigating AI deployment? Or just someone asking the same questions we are?