We prototype more open, human-centered futures for AI.

Building capacity across Canada’s AI ecosystem: 500+ nonprofits, 4,300+ builders, 200+ students. Linux Foundation AI & Data member.

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What We Do

RAISE: Responsible AI Adoption for Social Impact

Canada’s first national program for nonprofit AI adoption, backed by $1.3M federal co-investment through DIGITAL supercluster, delivered in partnership with Creative Destruction Lab and The Dais at Toronto Metropolitan University.

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AI in Production Mentorship

Closing the apprenticeship gap in AI education, we have 200+ students building open source AI projects with experienced practitioners as mentors, building AI in Production skills with human-centered implementation defaults.

Partnership with University of Toronto and Northeastern University.

AI Tinkerers Community

Running Canada’s largest AI/ML builders community with 4,300+ members. Monthly demo nights featuring 300+ production AI projects, hackathons, and technical workshops. Part of 200+ city global network, with support from Shopify, Google, Intel AI, Mozilla, Auth0, Accenture, Cohere, and more.

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HUMAINE: Open AI Evaluation at Scale

Led by Prolific and Hugging Face with Human Feedback Foundation and research partners, HUMAINE evaluates AI models through real conversations with diverse populations.

For HUMAINE, 43,339 participants across 22 demographic groups rated 38 frontier models on metrics that matter to real human users, such as trustworthiness, personality, and understanding, — creating a representative leaderboard and revealing how preferences vary across age, ethnicity, and political groups.

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News and Insights

White Paper: Democratic Input to AI

Human Feedback for Open AI's call for Democratic Input to AI

The future of open human feedback

Published in Nature Machine Intelligence, cites Human Feedback Foundation

How to support non-profits in AI adoption

The Philanthropist mentions HFF work

Sovereignty Is Not Solitude: Open Source as Canada’s Third Path in AI

Elena Yunusov for CIGI (Centre for International Governance and Innovation)

Paper Club with Leading Frontier Labs

Human Feedback with UC Berkley, Google Research, MIT, and others

Responsible AI Adoption for Social Impact – AI Adoption Playbook

Led by the Human Feedback Foundation, this AI adoption playbook has been co-developed in collaboration with multi-disciplinary panel of experts, representing legal, nonprofit, ethics, policy, and governance perspectives to guide responsible AI adoption across the social impact sector.

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Community

AI Tinkerers

We run AI Tinkerers Toronto, a community of 4,300+ AI/ML builders and entrepreneurs. AI Tinkerers meetups taking place in 200+ cities.

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February 2026

AI Tinkerers Toronto – sponsored by Cohere

Come join us for an evening of awesome AI demos. Meet fellow AI/ML builders, and submit a demo! As usual, the meetup series is produced by the Human Feedback Foundation. We’re excited to announce that this month’s meetup is sponsored by Cohere.

Paper Club

Paper Club is a virtual event series where authors of cutting-edge AI and machine learning papers share their work, hosted by the Human Feedback Foundation in collaboration with AI Tinkerers — open to all and designed for learning, dialogue, and community.

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