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title: "Humanity-aligned"
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description: "Menlo exists because technology lets humanity work as one."
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import { FaDiscord, FaMap } from "react-icons/fa";
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import { Steps } from "nextra/components";
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import Image from 'next/image';
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# Humanity-aligned
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<Image src="/images/our-blessed-homeland.jpg" alt="Our Blessed Kingdom" width={800} height={450} />
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> "The imagined community of the nation is always limited and sovereign, yet human connections and cooperation stretch far beyond borders." — Benedict Anderson
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## Why this matters
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- AI is geopolitical. Nation-states compete to control it
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- We are concerned about those using AI to stoke division, profit from lies, and spur conflict
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- Some of us come from places where war isn't distant—it's family history
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- Technology should unite, not divide
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## Who we are
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- Remote team across 7 countries
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- Diverse backgrounds, united by mission
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- Many of us are [third culture kids](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_culture_kid)—growing up between worlds
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- We often find ourselves misunderstood: an Asian-majority team, English-speaking, influenced by global philosophies
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- Crossroad cultures shape us:
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- Turkiye: Europe, Asia, Middle East converge
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- Singapore: Trade hub bridging worlds
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- We respect each other's cultures and build on shared values
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## Menlo's stance
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- Humanity first. We build for people, not governments or factions
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- AI should enable:
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- Shared prosperity
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- Universal education
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- Peaceful collaboration
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- Technology **must** empower humanity to do more—together
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## The bigger picture
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- Human history is one of scaling cooperation:
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- Small-scale [kin groups](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982219303343) → diverse political formations → [modern nation-states](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westphalian_system) → global networks
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- Empires rose and fell. Nationalism united and divided. Globalization connected and excluded
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- History doesn't progress. It moves—messy, cyclical, and full of contradiction
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- Technology changes the terrain:
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- Like ant colonies forming complex systems from simple interactions, humans have always built networks beyond central control
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- Complexity emerges from countless small decisions—but unlike ants, we carry ideologies, ambitions, and fears
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- AI is another fork in the road. It can reinforce old hierarchies or dismantle them. It can be used to surveil or to liberate
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## Why we exist
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- 30 people, from different countries, met online to build together
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- The internet enables connections that were impossible a generation ago
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- Ideas cross borders: an anthropologist in Turkiye collaborates with a roboticist in Saigon
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- Menlo exists because technology lets humanity work as one
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## Our vision
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- AI can accelerate global coordination and shared progress
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- Our goal: help humanity align, collaborate, and solve collective challenges
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- Success = contributing to humanity's long arc toward unity
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If our work helps the world coordinate better—even slightly—we've done something that matters
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