501(c)(3) nonprofit · Governing body of The HART Standard
Heart & LogicHeart & Logic Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. We govern the HART Standard — a framework for measuring how AI reshapes jobs, judgment, and rights — and we build the community of workforce development partners, artists, and certifying organizations who help shape it.
That gap is the reason we exist. Most AI frameworks measure models — accuracy, latency, risk to the business. Almost none measure what a system does to a person’s livelihood, judgment, or agency.
We start from the other end: the human first, the model second. Staying independent is what makes that credible, and independence requires the support of people and institutions who believe AI governance should serve the public — including city and community leaders working to make sure their residents and workforces aren’t left behind.
In plain terms
At its core, HART asks every organization deploying AI to answer three questions: which jobs and tasks does this change? Is it eroding human skill and judgment over time? And where are the hard lines this system should never cross without a person signing off?
For technical and compliance teams
The HART Standard itself — the full technical document, clause by clause, built for engineers, compliance teams, and AI governance leads to actually implement — lives on its own site. This site is for the community helping shape and support that work, not for implementing it.
Read the HART StandardJoin the Human Impact Consortium
The Human Impact Consortium is the community of partners whose input shapes how HART evolves — feeding directly into the work of the Heart & Logic Human Impact Technical Committee, which maintains the Standard itself. Four groups make up the Consortium today:
Workforce development
We partner with workforce development programs to credential graduates as Risk Context Officers — a new, paid career path bringing lived industry context to how organizations govern AI from the inside.
Explore the pipelineArtists & art consortiums
Fellowships and events investing directly in artists and art consortiums building fluency and ownership over the generative tools reshaping their craft.
See the fellowshipCertifying organizations
We license independent, accredited organizations to certify against the Standard — keeping certification separate from standard-setting, the same way ISO does it.
See how certification worksCities & public-sector tech offices
We work with city and public-sector technology offices thinking through how AI deployed in public services affects the residents and municipal workforces they serve.
Connect with usDonate
Heart & Logic is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Donations fund the programs that prove the Standard works — compliance education, the Risk Context Officer career pipeline, and artist fellowships — and keep HART free of commercial influence, in the public interest.
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Our story
Before there was a standard, there was a community — artists and creators navigating a world being reshaped by technology. Working alongside them taught us the lesson that still drives everything: the people most influenced by AI are rarely the ones deciding how it gets built.
We never stopped investing in artists. But the community grew — to compliance practitioners, workforce-development partners, and city technology offices, all sharing one interest: AI governance that is rigorous, inclusive, and built for lasting public benefit.
The art in HART is intentional.