What they lack in guile they more than make up for in what feels like (to their parents) boundless energy. We are shocked by its potential while remaining amused and sometimes alarmed by its naivete and lack of judgment. At the end of 2025, a group of expats from xAI, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google DeepMind teamed up to found humans&, a new firm with ambitions to help AI grow up. humans& is betting that the future of AI depends on constraining, conditioning, and contextualizing AI behavior rather than expanding its capabilities. Then there’s the risk a company would take on by delegating such delicate work to a non-human, agentic system.