Preserving Human Agency in a Sustainable World

Hybrid Intelligence

Hybrid Intelligence provides the detailed playbook for individuals, organizations, and nations navigating the age of Agentic AI. Our mission is built on comprehensive sustainability: addressing environmental concerns alongside a positive Future of Work that preserves individual agency and ensures meaningful, economically valuable contributions for all.

What is Hybrid Intelligence?

Hybrid Intelligence combines human creativity, ethics, and contextual understanding with AI’s scalability and efficiency. This collaboration enables solutions that neither could achieve alone.

The world stands at a crossroads. The AI-first narrative promises limitless speed and automation but risks eroding human meaning, agency, and creative sovereignty. Hybrid Intelligence offers another path.

It redefines progress as a partnership between human and artificial intelligence – uniting human imagination, judgment, and ethics with AI’s analytical reach and scalability. HI operates on every level: algorithms designed for complementarity, interfaces that foster reflection rather than dependency, organizations that transform workflows into learning systems, and societies that reward human-centered innovation.

This manifesto is both a vision and a call to action: to build systems that amplify – not replace – human potential. Against the illusion of autonomous superintelligence, it presents a Human Renaissance – where technology learns from us as much as we learn from it, and where sustainable value creation depends on our capacity to co-create wisely, not automate blindly.

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Jacob Sherson
Prof.
Aarhus University

Adam Green
Prof.
Georgetown University

Anna B. Holm
Assoc. Prof.
Aarhus University

Adam Green
Prof. of Psychology
Georgetown University

Janet Rafner
Assist. Prof.
Aarhus University

Blerim Emruli
Assist. Prof.
Lund University

Mariola Pytliková
Assoc. Prof.
Charles University Prague

Jens Christian Bjerring
Prof.
Aarhus University

Ana Alina Tudoran
Assoc. Prof.
Aarhus University

Roni Reiter-Palmon
Prof.
University of Nebraska at Omaha

Adam Gordon
Assoc. Prof.
Aarhus University

Izabela Lebuda
Assoc. Prof.
University of Wrocław

Maceo Gonzalez
Engineering Intern
Aaarhus University

Mette Præst Knudsen
Prof.
University of Southern Denmark

Jesper Broberg Bang
CEO
Gejst Studio

Ilaria Tiddi
Assoc. Prof.
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Stephanie Tan
Assist. Prof.
Delft University of Technology

Henry Sauermann
Prof.
ESMT Berlin

Matthias Sōllner
Prof.
University of Kassel

Aleks Berditchevskaia
Principal Researcher
Nesta Center for Collective Intelligence Design

Magnus Lodefalk
Assoc. Prof.
Örebro University

Yaoli Mao
Principal Experience Researcher
Autodesk

Marcus Wanger
Prof.
Augsburg University

Rasmus Linnet
Head of AI & Data Analytics
Bagger-Sørensen

Steve DiPaola
Prof.
Simon Fraser University

Yoed N. Kenett
Assoc. Prof.
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Casper Thylkjær
GenAI Solution Architect & Research Assistent
Aarhus University

Morten Røndal Olsen
Strategic Manager
Aarhus University

Janet Marler
Prof.
University at Albany, State University of New York

Florent Vinchon
Researcher
Université Paris Cité & Univ Gustave Eiffel

Andy Nguyen
Assoc. Prof.
University of Oulu

Sanna Järvelä
Prof.
University of Oulu

Frederik Brosbøl Kjeldsen
GenAI Solution Architect & Research Assistent
Aarhus University