About Dehumanizing Impact Index
The Dehumanizing Impact Index (DII) is an independent, human-centred framework created to examine a simple but often ignored question:
What do we lose when systems and technologies become more efficient?
Across digital platforms, workplaces, public services, and emerging AI-driven environments, optimization has become the dominant goal. Speed, scale, engagement, and productivity are measured meticulously. Yet the impact of these systems on human dignity, empathy, autonomy, attention, and meaning remains largely unmeasured and frequently invisible.
What do we do
DII offers a structured way to understand how systems and technologies affect social connection, empathy, dignity, agency, and everyday human experience.
It draws on insights from behavioral economics, ethics, sociology, philosophy, and human-centred design to help identify dehumanization risks early.
How DII differs and adds value
Broader, more holistic
DII goes beyond addiction and wellbeing to capture impacts on empathy, presence, embodiment, sleep, agency, and social connection.
Normative, not pathological
It detects subtle, everyday human shifts, even without addiction, often missed by conventional scales.
Designed for policy and social research
Built for researchers, policymakers, and youth programs to assess community-level change, not just mental health.
Customizable and context-sensitive
Flexible across cultures, age groups, and socio-economic and regional settings and regional including urban and rural contexts.