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What is Pro-Human AI?

At the 2025 Utah AI Summit, Governor Spencer Cox launched an AI framework to bring the progress happening across seven pillars—workforce, industry, state government, academia, learning and education, and public protection—under one umbrella: Pro-Human AI. 

Human-Guided

Pro-Human AI is a framework that places people at the center of every technological decision. It begins with a simple principle: AI must be human-guided. Systems should protect dignity, preserve human agency, and ensure individuals stay in control of the tools that shape their work and their lives. Pro-Human AI rejects systems that mislead or obscure how they operate. 

This core element asks us to prioritize human leadership in the age of AI—ensuring that AI remains understandable in how it functions, accountable in its impact, and adaptable to human needs rather than the other way around. 

Human-Guided Values

  • Adaptable
  • Accountable
  • Understandable
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Human-Enhancing

The second core element is that AI must be human-enhancing. It should expand our capabilities, not diminish them; open new opportunities, not close them. 

Pro-human AI empowers workers with better tools, strengthens communities through accessible innovation, and enables problem-solving at unprecedented scale. It deepens human interaction by connecting people and ideas in more meaningful ways. 

Pro-Human AI treats AI as an amplifier of human potential by focusing on creating a value-based AI ecosystem that is pioneering in its vision, empowering in its outcome, and connective in how it brings people and ideas together. 

Human-Enhancing Values

  • Pioneering
  • Empowering
  • Connective

Seven Pillars of Pro-Human AI

Utah's Pro-Human AI initiative emphasizes responsible AI development and uses, promoting transparency, protecting privacy, and ensuring that technology benefits all Utahns. The Seven Pillars are core domains where coordinated action, policy, and innovation come together to advance Pro-Human AI in a clear and measurable way.
  • Academic Research & Development
  • Healthcare
  • Industry Innovation
  • Learning & Education
  • Public Protection
  • State Government Deployment
  • Workforce Empowerment
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