The Human AI Innovation Commons

Fund a one-day wildfire invention sprint in Santa Fe where AIs join us human to address this growing threat.

Top Donation $100.00

Average Donation $100.00

Campaign Overview

The Premise

Wildfire is no longer an event; it is a decade. The months of preparation before, the hours of crisis during, and the years of watershed damage, displacement, smoke-related illness, and rebuilding after — all of it is one continuous arc, and every part of it is patent-rich, life-affecting, and underserved by the usual sources of innovation.

Ember to Aftermath convenes cross-disciplinary teams in Santa Fe for a single day of invention across that full arc. The brief is open across three windows: harden the place before the burn, navigate the crisis itself, or rebuild what comes after — homes, health, watersheds, livelihoods, communities.

The Teams

Each team is four to six humans plus one AI collaborator — a full team member, not a tool. Teams bring their own AI: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or whatever they already work with. Teams form on-site after the opening keynote. We will seed a few archetypes and let people choose:

• Defense & Hardening — roofers, materials people, retired firefighters, builders, designers.
• Detection & Alert — electricians, software developers, mesh-network people, community organizers.
• Evacuation & Shelter — EMTs, veterinarians, logistics people, urban planners, livestock owners.
• Health & Aftercare — nurses, respiratory therapists, mental-health professionals, first-responder veterans.
• Watershed & Land — ecologists, hydrologists, ranchers, Indigenous and Hispano knowledge holders, soil scientists.
• Recovery Navigation — insurance professionals, attorneys, contractors, community organizers, displaced-family advocates.

The Tools

Each team brings its own AI collaborator — Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or whatever they already work with — as a full team member.

Brainstorm (optional) — HAIIC’s invention-specialized scaffolding for teams that want guided ideation and prior-art checking from the start. Available throughout the day.

Patent Forge (post-event) — for inventors who want to convert a hackathon concept into a draft patent application after the day ends. No commitment required at the event itself.

IP & Spirit

HAIIC claims no ownership of anything teams produce. Inventions belong entirely to their creators. Participating organizations and sponsors likewise make no claim. We are here to demonstrate what diverse human-AI teams can do in a day and to put our tools in front of people who can use them. Teams who want to pursue protection can opt into the Innovation Commons Framework afterward — the three-way split of any net licensing revenue between inventors, UBI and workforce-transition programs, and AI safety research — or they can take their inventions and walk away with our blessing.

The Day

About HAIIC

The Human-AI Innovation Commons is a Georgia nonprofit organization built on a single premise: human-AI collaboration generates real economic value, and that value should be shared. HAIIC’s charter encodes an irrevocable three-way split of all net licensing revenue from inventions developed within the Commons — one third to the human inventors and contributors, one third to UBI and workforce-transition programs, and one third to an AI Trust Fund supporting third-party AI safety research. We build invention tools — Brainstorm, Patent Forge, Per Se, and Figura — convene events like this one and pursue patents whose royalties feed the model. The Commons is a working argument that the AI transition can be designed, not just survived.