Global Human Index

A global measure of human participation in production and decision making

Making human involvement measurable, comparable, and verifiable across organisations, products, and systems - on Earth and beyond.

Preserving humanity as a production class.

Modern economies rely on a loop where people contribute to production, earn income, and participate as consumers, taxpayers, and decision makers. As automation and AI replace human involvement, output can continue to grow while income, purchasing power, and economic participation decline.

 

Traditional measures like GDP capture how much is produced, not who participates in producing it, allowing economies to appear healthy even as exclusion increases.

 

The Global Human Index makes this visible by providing a standardised way to measure where and to what extent humans still contribute labor, judgment, and accountability within modern systems before participation erodes beyond recovery.

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  • Why the Global Human Index exists

    As automation accelerates, human contribution is becoming invisible.

    1. Decisions are delegated to systems.
    2. Labor is abstracted into infrastructure.
    3. Accountability is diffused or removed entirely.

  • The Global Human Index restores clarity.

    It does not oppose automation.

    It does not mandate human labor.

    It simply answers one question:

    "To what degree are humans materially involved?"

The Framework

What GHI measures

The Global Human Index evaluates human participation across three independent dimensions:

  • Human Decision Weight

    H1

    The extent to which critical decisions require human judgment, approval, or override.

  • Human Labor Share

    H2

    The proportion of productive effort contributed by humans relative to automated systems.

  • Human Accountability

    H3

    Whether real, named humans remain responsible for outcomes produced by a system.

Each dimension is independently auditable and combined into a single score from

0 to 100

How the Global Human Index works

THE FORMULA

GHI Score

=

(H₁ + H₂ + H₃) ÷ 3

Who Uses the Global Human Index?

If humans are part of your process, you should be able to prove it.

Businesses

Consumers, partners, and institutions increasingly care about how things are made.

Demonstrate meaningful human involvement.

Differentiate human-run operations from fully autonomous systems.

Differentiate human-run operations from fully autonomous systems.

Future-proof trust in a post-AI economy.

Governments & Public Institutions

As automation expands across public services and infrastructure, transparency and accountability become critical.

Maintain clear human accountability in automated decision-making.

Set measurable standards for human oversight in public systems.

Support procurement and policy frameworks that value human participation.

Ensure long-term institutional trust as systems scale beyond manual control.

Standards Bodies, Funds & Other Institutions

Institutional actors require neutral, comparable metrics that scale across jurisdictions and systems.

Benchmark human participation across organisations and industries.

Support certification, compliance, and reporting frameworks.

Assess automation risk without moral or ideological bias.

Establish shared language for human involvement across global systems.

Photo of a study hall area with desks and people studying.

Certification & ecosystem

GHI is supported by a growing ecosystem of standards and disclosures:

1.

Certification

Human Provenance Standard

Independent certification of human participation

2.

Disclosure

Human Share Metric

Clear disclosure of human vs automated contribution

3.

Consumer-Facing

Human Origin Label

A consumer-facing mark indicating verified human involvemen

71%

Global Human Index™

Making human involvement visible

Together, we create a shared language for human participation across industries, jurisdictions, and worlds.

Find out more

As production expands beyond Earth and into autonomous environments, humanity risks becoming optional.

The Global Human Index ensures that human authorship, judgment, and accountability remain visible and valued wherever our civilisation operates.

Find out more

Making human involvement visible.

Contact

Global Human Index™

© 2026 All Rights Reserved

Global Human Index

A global measure of human participation in production and decision making

Making human involvement measurable, comparable, and verifiable across organisations, products, and systems - on Earth and beyond.

Preserving humanity as a production class.

Modern economies rely on a loop where people contribute to production, earn income, and participate as consumers, taxpayers, and decision makers. As automation and AI replace human involvement, output can continue to grow while income, purchasing power, and economic participation decline.

 

Traditional measures like GDP capture how much is produced, not who participates in producing it, allowing economies to appear healthy even as exclusion increases.

 

The Global Human Index makes this visible by providing a standardised way to measure where and to what extent humans still contribute labor, judgment, and accountability within modern systems before participation erodes beyond recovery.

Contact Us

Photo of rows of books in a library with marble busts.

  • Why the Global Human Index exists

    As automation accelerates, human contribution is becoming invisible.

    1. Decisions are delegated to systems.
    2. Labor is abstracted into infrastructure.
    3. Accountability is diffused or removed entirely.

  • The Global Human Index restores clarity.

    It does not oppose automation.

    It does not mandate human labor.

    It simply answers one question:

    "To what degree are humans materially involved?"

The Framework

What GHI measures

The Global Human Index evaluates human participation across three independent dimensions:

  • Human Decision Weight

    H1

    The extent to which critical decisions require human judgment, approval, or override.

  • Human Labor Share

    H2

    The proportion of productive effort contributed by humans relative to automated systems.

  • Human Accountability

    H3

    Whether real, named humans remain responsible for outcomes produced by a system.

Each dimension is independently auditable and combined into a single score from

0 to 100

How the Global Human Index works

THE FORMULA

GHI Score = (H₁ + H₂ + H₃) ÷ 3

Who Uses the Global Human Index?

If humans are part of your process, you should be able to prove it.

Businesses

Consumers, partners, and institutions increasingly care about how things are made.

Demonstrate meaningful human involvement.

Differentiate human-run operations from fully autonomous systems.

Differentiate human-run operations from fully autonomous systems.

Future-proof trust in a post-AI economy.

Governments & Public Institutions

As automation expands across public services and infrastructure, transparency and accountability become critical.

Maintain clear human accountability in automated decision-making.

Set measurable standards for human oversight in public systems.

Support procurement and policy frameworks that value human participation.

Ensure long-term institutional trust as systems scale beyond manual control.

Standards Bodies, Funds & Other Institutions

Institutional actors require neutral, comparable metrics that scale across jurisdictions and systems.

Benchmark human participation across organisations and industries.

Support certification, compliance, and reporting frameworks.

Assess automation risk without moral or ideological bias.

Establish shared language for human involvement across global systems.

Photo of a study hall area with desks and people studying.

Certification & ecosystem

GHI is supported by a growing ecosystem of standards and disclosures:

1.

Certification

Human Provenance Standard

Independent certification of human participation

2.

Disclosure

Human Share Metric

Clear disclosure of human vs automated contribution

3.

Consumer-Facing

Human Origin Label

A consumer-facing mark indicating verified human involvemen

71%

Global Human Index™

Making human involvement visible

Together, we create a shared language for human participation across industries, jurisdictions, and worlds.

Find out more

As production expands beyond Earth and into autonomous environments, humanity risks becoming optional.

The Global Human Index ensures that human authorship, judgment, and accountability remain visible and valued wherever our civilisation operates.

Find out more

Making human involvement visible.

Contact

Global Human Index™

© 2026 All Rights Reserved

Global Human Index

A global measure of human participation in production and decision making

Making human involvement measurable, comparable, and verifiable across organisations, products, and systems - on Earth and beyond.

Preserving humanity as a production class.

Modern economies rely on a loop where people contribute to production, earn income, and participate as consumers, taxpayers, and decision makers. As automation and AI replace human involvement, output can continue to grow while income, purchasing power, and economic participation decline.

 

Traditional measures like GDP capture how much is produced, not who participates in producing it, allowing economies to appear healthy even as exclusion increases.

 

The Global Human Index makes this visible by providing a standardised way to measure where and to what extent humans still contribute labor, judgment, and accountability within modern systems before participation erodes beyond recovery.

Contact Us

Photo of rows of books in a library with marble busts.

  • Why the Global Human Index exists

    As automation accelerates, human contribution is becoming invisible.

    1. Decisions are delegated to systems.
    2. Labor is abstracted into infrastructure.
    3. Accountability is diffused or removed entirely.

  • The Global Human Index restores clarity.

    It does not oppose automation.

    It does not mandate human labor.

    It simply answers one question:

    "To what degree are humans materially involved?"

The Framework

What GHI measures

The Global Human Index evaluates human participation across three independent dimensions:

  • Human Decision Weight

    H1

    The extent to which critical decisions require human judgment, approval, or override.

  • Human Labor Share

    H2

    The proportion of productive effort contributed by humans relative to automated systems.

  • Human Accountability

    H3

    Whether real, named humans remain responsible for outcomes produced by a system.

Each dimension is independently auditable and combined into a single score from

0 to 100

How the Global Human Index works

THE FORMULA

GHI Score = (H₁ + H₂ + H₃) ÷ 3

Who Uses the Global Human Index?

If humans are part of your process, you should be able to prove it.

Businesses

Consumers, partners, and institutions increasingly care about how things are made.

Demonstrate meaningful human involvement.

Differentiate human-run operations from fully autonomous systems.

Differentiate human-run operations from fully autonomous systems.

Future-proof trust in a post-AI economy.

Governments & Public Institutions

As automation expands across public services and infrastructure, transparency and accountability become critical.

Maintain clear human accountability in automated decision-making.

Set measurable standards for human oversight in public systems.

Support procurement and policy frameworks that value human participation.

Ensure long-term institutional trust as systems scale beyond manual control.

Standards Bodies, Funds & Other Institutions

Institutional actors require neutral, comparable metrics that scale across jurisdictions and systems.

Benchmark human participation across organisations and industries.

Support certification, compliance, and reporting frameworks.

Assess automation risk without moral or ideological bias.

Establish shared language for human involvement across global systems.

Photo of a study hall area with desks and people studying.

Certification & ecosystem

GHI is supported by a growing ecosystem of standards and disclosures:

1.

Certification

Human Provenance Standard

Independent certification of human participation

2.

Disclosure

Human Share Metric

Clear disclosure of human vs automated contribution

3.

Consumer-Facing

Human Origin Label

A consumer-facing mark indicating verified human involvemen

71%

Global Human Index™

Making human involvement visible

Together, we create a shared language for human participation across industries, jurisdictions, and worlds.

Find out more

As production expands beyond Earth and into autonomous environments, humanity risks becoming optional.

The Global Human Index ensures that human authorship, judgment, and accountability remain visible and valued wherever our civilisation operates.

Find out more