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Research that earns its place.

Hasna Foundation is a research foundation. We support work that connects AI to problems with public consequences: how care is delivered, how climate risk is understood, how children learn, and who gets to take part in science.

We are deliberately narrow. A short agenda, a small number of programs, and a preference for work that can be checked. The foundation exists to make careful research possible, not to sell a product or promote a technology.

Some of the most important AI research will not be funded by markets. Its benefits are widely shared, its results arrive slowly, and its value is difficult to capture in a product. That is not a failure of the research. It is a mismatch between the work and the way most funding is organized.

The foundation is designed to start small: a focused agenda, a short list of programs, and partnerships with people who already understand the problems. A broad strategy announced before the work exists would help no one, so we would rather do a few things carefully and report on them honestly.

Openness. Methods, code, and results are published unless there is a specific reason not to, such as participant privacy or a safety risk. When we withhold something, we say why.

Rigour. A result counts when someone else can check it. We prefer careful work on a narrow question to a broad claim that cannot be reproduced.

Stewardship. The foundation is meant to last longer than a single grant cycle, so the work is planned in repeated rounds, each one reporting what changed and what did not.

Dignity. The people affected by a problem are participants in the research, not subjects of it.

Governance. The foundation separates direction, review, and delivery. A Board sets the mission and approves the agenda; a Research Council of outside researchers and practitioners reviews proposals against it; program leads run grants and fellowships; operations handles finance, administration and the public record.

Commitments. Grant decisions and the reasons for them are documented and shared with applicants. Conflicts of interest are disclosed and recused. A yearly summary of grants and spending will be published once the first grant round closes.