Hume AI

New York, NY

Led by emotion scientists and AI researchers, Hume AI is building the foundations of empathic AI. The company conducts large-scale psychology studies and provides unbiased training datasets and machine learning models capturing a wide range of emotional behaviors in the face, voice, and body. It provides these resources to partners seeking to build empathic technologies that prioritize and serve human emotional-well being, including digital assistants, mental health monitoring apps, therapeutic social robots, and more. Hume’s mission is to pave the way for an ethical, human-centric future for AI, ensuring that as technology gets smarter it remains aligned with our goals.