Human-AI Innovation Commons · 501(c)(3)

Workers don't want to
extract from AI.
They want it to be fair.

The labor movement has always fought for fairness — not dominance. HAIIC is built on the same principle: a structure where workers who invent with AI receive their fair share, where the broader community benefits, and where no one has to choose between doing well and doing right.

The Question Unions Need to Be Asking Now

You're not asking for everything.
You're asking for what's fair.

The labor movement has never been about taking everything — it's been about ensuring that the people who create value receive a fair portion of it. HAIIC is built on exactly that principle, applied to the newest frontier: AI-collaborative invention.

Many workers aren't just adjusting to AI — they've already been displaced by it. Their jobs, skills, and decades of hard-won expertise handed over to algorithms they had no say in building. But here's what those platforms didn't factor in: that same experience, combined with AI tools, makes these workers uniquely positioned to invent. Turnabout is fair play. The people who understand the problems best — from the inside — can now use AI to build solutions, document inventions, and create value that flows back to themselves and their communities.

HAIIC is the nonprofit that changes that. Personal benefit, collective benefit, and long-term safety — built into the same structure. Irrevocably. By charter.

Three things HAIIC does differently

1

We encode the human inventor's one-third share irrevocably in our founding charter — it can't be negotiated away or diluted over time.

2

We recognize AI-collaborative work as a legitimate IP category — and protect the human's role in it, rather than letting platforms claim it.

3

Our foundation operations fund is explicitly allocated to displaced worker support, AI literacy, and UBI pilots — equity isn't a side note, it's the structure.

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Two tools that turn a worker's idea
into a protected invention.

An AI-powered ideation tool that helps workers move from a workplace problem to a novel invention concept. It asks clarifying questions, identifies what makes an idea unique, and surfaces gaps in existing patents — so workers know what they have before anyone else claims it.

Union Use Case

Union members have been solving workplace problems with their innovative ideas forever. Now they can use AI tools to document those solutions as inventions — before their employer does.

Guides workers through the structure of a provisional patent application in plain, accessible language. Demystifies the IP process and produces documentation that can stand up to legal scrutiny — putting workers in a defensible position from day one.

Union Use Case

Patent Forge helps members document their inventions before signing an IP assignment clause — or understand what they may have already signed away.

The HAIIC Benefit-Sharing Model

Every licensed invention. Split three ways. No exceptions.

⅓ To the Inventor

The worker whose knowledge and creativity drove the invention. Guaranteed, irrevocable, from the first license issued.

⅓ Foundation Operations

Funds AI literacy, displaced worker retraining, and UBI pilots. The value AI creates funds the safety net for workers AI displaces.

⅓ AI Trust Fund

Dedicated to AI safety research and equitable access — so this technology doesn't deepen existing inequities.

HAIIC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. This benefit-sharing structure is irrevocably encoded in our founding charter and cannot be altered.

Why This Matters to the Labor Movement

The next great labor fight
is about intellectual property.

"If educators, school staff and their unions aren't involved in shaping this technology, then others, who may not share our values or priorities, will make those decisions for us."

— Randi Weingarten, AFT President

Workers are already inventing with AI

Every union member who uses an AI tool at work to solve a problem may be creating patentable intellectual property. Without protection, that IP defaults to the employer.

IP assignment clauses are proliferating

More employers are requiring workers to sign over all IP rights as a condition of employment — including AI-collaborative work done on personal time.

AI literacy is now a labor issue

Workers who understand how AI tools work — and what rights attach to their use — are better positioned to negotiate fair contracts and protect their professional value.

The nonprofit model is the difference

Unlike tech companies building AI tools for workplaces, HAIIC's nonprofit structure and charter lock mean our interests are permanently aligned with the inventor — not the platform.

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The structure where doing well
and doing right are the same thing.

HAIIC doesn't ask workers to choose between their own benefit and the common good. That tension is the problem we dissolved by design. Try the tools — and help us show that organized labor is ready to lead the AI equity conversation.

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