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As global leaders convene in New York for the United Nations General Assembly and as AI continues to reshape labor markets around the world, Institute for Human Flourishing (IHF) has launched with a mandate to: Ensure AI raises incomes, expands agency, and creates opportunity for communities around the world, especially those vulnerable to AI-driven labor disruption.
But that will not happen by default,” said Ravi Venkatesan, Founder, Institute for Human Flourishing. The question is whether that transformation raises incomes and expands agency for the majority, most of whom work in the informal economy,” said Urvashi Aneja, CEO, Institute for Human Flourishing. Founded by Ravi Venkatesan, IHF will start operations in India, testing what helps workers navigate and benefit from AI, and taking what works into policy and practice across the Global South. “India has the chance to show the world a different model — one in which AI becomes a tool for mass flourishing rather than mass displacement. He added, “It requires institutions that connect evidence, practice, and policy. That is why we have built IHF. “The question is no longer whether AI will transform work in the Global South — it already is. “That outcome will be decided by institutional choices, and those choices need evidence. IHF exists to build that evidence in the field, with real workers and real enterprises, and to make sure it shapes both markets and policy,” she added. You use AI every day. Now get your AI Quotient. Take the AIQ test.