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It started with a question:

"Should AI Read Bedtime Stories to our kids?" - Kathy Pham, founder

Human Agency and Purpose In This Era of AI

Agents of Purpose builds our future at the crossroads of agency, purpose, and AI. It began with our founder asking one question in classrooms, boardrooms, and at dinner tables with friends: "Should AI read bedtime stories to our kids?" This grew into building a foundation for how we incorporate AI into our lives and deploy it in our organizations.

The Framework

Capability	Agency	Purpose
Understanding what AI can actually do and what it can't.	Keeping us in control with real choice.	Asking why - so technology serves what actually matters.

On the horizon

Book

Agents of Purpose

A framework for navigating AI with intention, built around Capability, Agency, and Purpose.

Podcast

Agents of Purpose: Limited Podcast Series

Conversations with experts across disciplines to unpack agency and purpose throughout history to understand our futures.

Speaking

Dialogues and Keynotes

Bring Agents of Purpose to stages, boardrooms, and classrooms. Contact Stern Strategy Group.

Kathy Pham in purple.

Kathy Pham

Founder

Kathy is the founder of Agents of Purpose and a pioneer at the intersection of technology and the public interest. She helped stand up the White House U.S. Digital Service (and subsequently co-founded the U.S. Digital Service Origins), helped built the FTC's first Technology Office, advised the White House as a member of the National AI Advisory Committee, led AI and open technology at Workday, and built technology at Google and IBM. She pioneered responsible computing at Mozilla and Harvard, some of the earliest institutional efforts to explore the human consequences of technology. She founded and teaches Product Management and Society at Harvard. Her work, spanning government, non-profits, industry, and academia, and care-taking, drove her to one core question to help us build the foundation of our use of technology: "Should AI read bedtime stories to our kids?"

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