Humans create.
Machines imitate.
HUMAN INTELLIGENCE®
empowers Genuine
Human Creators
On Stage and Off
Mission
Human Intelligence® ensures human music remain under the control of human musicians. We defend the bright line between authentic human music and the machine models that ingest and co-opt real human tunes.
To do this, we provide a foundational trifecta of authentication tools and services that prove human origin and protect IP: we verify humanity, certify your music as human-made, and safeguard the rights of musicians and music publishers.
Because humans create.
Machines merely imitate.
Human Intelligence® protects, preserves and proclaims the value of human creative work.
Story
The Problem
The Solution
We deliver an essential technical authentication layer that enables human musicians to certifiably prove the provenance of your music – so you can fight back against AI overreach.
We maintain an arsenal of registered trademarks and legal safeguards to assist musicians like you in retaining the rights to your published catalogue.
How to Get Our Mark of Approval
When you are verified as a Human Musician, you receive a license to use our mark (Start here.)
Use of the registered Humanright™ 
trademark assures your audience that your music is human-made. The mark also notifies companies that your music cannot be used without permission.
About the 
Mark
The unique Humanright™ mark is a registered trademark that demonstrates to the world that you are a Human Musician and that your writing and your published tunes are Human Created.
We care about language. The registered mark transmits the same meaning in nearly 30 languages around the world: the mark can be used in a variety of ways to identify yourself and your music as genuinely human.
Tools: Our Technological Edge
Chain of Creation™
Human Intelligence® tools focus on provenance: rather than “detecting” AI in published music after creation, we follow certain tell-tale signs unique to human music. Our patent-pending systems don’t ingest your actual music at all – instead we examine the plume of activity each song carries with it, which helps us to reliably identify the chain of creation.™
Reliable Authentication
We deliver a proven layer of trust that reliably authenticates human music. Our proprietary method begins by locking down a creator’s biometrically-secured identity, verifying each musician as a natural person. Our system then analyzes music for specific markers that result from human creative processes. When we find these key attributes, we register the music as certified Human Intelligence® – i.e., music that we authenticate as having been actually created by a human being.
Certified Human Photo — Brian BielmannProof of Human Authorship: Case Studies
Ned Hayes is a bestselling novelist and journalist whose books have been published around the world in many languages — most recently the international bestseller The Eagle Tree, which was nominated for the PEN-Faulkner Award and recommended by Steve Silberman and Temple Grandin. His previous novels include the historical novel Sinful Folk, illustrated by Nikki McClure. After a 20 year career at Intel, Adobe, and Microsoft, Hayes co-founded Human Intelligence ® to protect the rights of authors like himself.
The Eagle Tree Certified Human Book
MFA FACULTY
Katrina Hays
Katrina Hays is an award-winning and Pushcart Prize-nominated writer whose poetry, essays, and fiction has appeared widely. She was program assistant and guest faculty for many years at the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University, where she received her MFA.
Katrina is the recipient of multiple artist residencies, including the Emerging Artist-in-Residence at Crater Lake National Park. She interned at Copper Canyon Press.
SCIENCE FICTION
Nisi Shawl
Nisi Shawl is the author of the 2016 Nebula Award finalist Everfair, and of the Tiptree Award-winning story collection Filter House, praised by Ursula K. Le Guin as “superbly written” and by Samuel R. Delany as “brilliant.”
Shawl is also known for Writing the Other: A Practical Approach,, and for editing the 2019 multiple-award-winner New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color.
LITERARY
Ben Parzybok
Ben Parzybok has published two well-regarded novels: Couch and Sherwood Nation. He is well known for publishing a poetry journal out of gumball capsule machines with Laura Moulton, and he took part in a campaign to free a Guantanamo inmate, Adel Hamad (Project Hamad) with Laura and David Naimon.
Parzybok’s work is frequently published; his complete list of current projects can be found here:
Alliances: We Empower Musicians
Human Intelligence® contributes to technical advances that foreground the rights of human musicians. Our team includes musicians both amateur and professional. We are members of the Copyright Alliance. Our key technical leads are contributing members of the Coalition for Content Provenance & Authenticity (C2PA) and the Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI). We work with prominent voices in the music world to provide musicians with a viable voice in a changing world.
Authors Guild
copyright interests of
over 2M creators.
in the age of AI
News & Media
Press: Human Intelligence®
Human Intelligence® is now recognized as an official registered trademark by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. International plans are underway.
Listen & Read
Our team delivers new weekly content about human musicians! Listen to podcasts by working musicians, studio techs and label producers. Read our weekly newsletter.
Brand & Media Kit
Human Intelligence® registered trademarks and ground-breaking human provenance work is recognized around the globe. Here are tools for media to accurately describe HI.
Contact Our Music Rights Team
Have questions about the (H) tools or how our tools can be used in a studio environment? Are you a music publisher or label manager and want to discuss how we can protect your back catalogue? Need to find out if a song is really created by a human? Excellent! We’d love to talk.
Sing Us a Song
Contact our literary team at team@human.global
Music Community
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Human Intelligence ® does not use synthetic extruded content or generative toolsets.
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