A society of explorers
Real wisdom
for artificial
intelligence.
Explorers, scientists, and artists asking how wisdom can guide intelligence — human and artificial — toward the flourishing of all life.
Why this exists
We are living through the arrival of intelligence as capable as our own. The question is whether the wisdom to use it well arrives with it.
Wisdom Frontiers began as a circle of explorers, scientists, artists, and builders who kept returning to one question: how do we carry humanity's hardest-won wisdom into the age of artificial intelligence? Our first answer is Source Library — which we conceived and built into the world's largest library of translated primary sources: thousands of years of human insight, made readable and citable for people and legible to machines.
The knowledge already exists. Across every civilization, humans have thought carefully about what it takes to live well — to become wiser, freer, and more whole. Our work is to bring it forward, so that the intelligent systems now being built help each of us define our own purpose, not someone else's. We do this for the generation that will inherit it. For the children.
The flagship
Source Library
Wisdom Frontiers conceived and built Source Library — now the world's largest library of translated primary sources. Thousands of works across more than 100 languages, on medicine, ethics, the mind, and the natural world, many in English for the first time. Digitized, searchable, and structured for both human readers and AI.
Enter the library →The circle
Explorers, neuroscientists, physicians, designers, and AI researchers.
Albert Lin
National Geographic Explorer
Founding director of the Center for Human Frontiers at UC San Diego. Uses LIDAR, satellite imaging, and AI to reveal lost civilizations. Returned to the field after losing his leg in 2016 and launched Project Lim[b]itless to make prosthetics accessible worldwide.
Leo Trottier
Cognitive Scientist & Founder, FluentPet
Founded CleverPet and FluentPet, pioneering technology for interspecies communication. Co-directs the They Can Talk Research Initiative, the world's largest study of augmented animal communication.
Tim Mullen
Neuroscientist & Entrepreneur
Founded Intheon, the first real-time brain-computer interface platform, and co-founded Sanmai for non-invasive focused ultrasound therapies. Created open-source neurotech tools used worldwide. Ph.D. from UC San Diego.
Eli Spencer
Physician-Scientist, UC San Diego
Directs the Center for Health Design and the Distributed Health Lab at UC San Diego. Builds diagnostic and digital health tools for resource-limited settings across the Americas and Africa.
Jamie Shadowlight
In memory · Violinist & Cymatics Artist
A pioneering electric violinist who made the invisible visible — moving water with sound through her live cymatics performances. The harmonic center of our circle, and the light by which we navigate.
Qasim Anwar
Designer & Cultural Archaeologist
Works at the intersection of fashion and cultural preservation through Fashion Archeology. Founded Morni, bridging South Asian artisan craft with contemporary design. Co-created Color Coded Crime, reviving Mughal-era textile traditions.
Derek Lomas
Professor of Positive AI, TU Delft
Researches AI systems that maximize wellbeing in education and healthcare at Delft University of Technology. Co-founded Playpower Labs and NeuroUX, building educational tools reaching millions of learners.
Luke Barrington
Director, Google Earth AI
Leads geospatial AI at Google — weather forecasting, disaster response, environmental monitoring. Co-founded Tomnod, engaging millions of citizen scientists to map the world. Ph.D. from UC San Diego.
Join the expedition
Help carry wisdom into the age of intelligence.
We are a nonprofit. To grow Source Library and the work around it, we are seeking partners, supporters, and collaborators — institutions with collections to open, funders who share the mission, and builders who want to put humanity's wisdom into the systems shaping our future.