Humy AI is an AI teaching platform centered on history and social science education, and its core philosophy is to have every AI figure answer from authentic primary sources rather than relying on guesses from AI training. The platform includes more than 1,200 AI historical figures, with whom students can conduct interviews, debates, and role-play, learning to build arguments from evidence and practicing how to recognize when AI is wrong. Every citation is taken from a real document and can be clicked to open the original page for verification.
Main capabilities
- AI figure library: includes more than 1,200 AI historical figures, covering various historical periods and multiple subject areas, such as social science, history, language arts, world languages, science, and more. The figures are all built on primary sources, and their answers cite real documents.
- Panel feature (Panels): up to 10 figures can be placed in the same group chat, and the student acts as moderator deciding who speaks. It supports three modes: interview, debate, and simulation. The figures can debate one another, and the student can interrupt or stop them at any time. Scoring is based only on what the student writes, including the motions they set and how each interjection guides the panel.
- Student activity formats: including interview (ask AI figures questions directly, practicing inquiry and follow-up questioning), debate (build and defend an argument against one figure or a panel of up to ten people, or set a motion and moderate the debate), simulation (students take on historical roles, make decisions within a situation, and develop empathy and perspective), open questions (short-answer and open-ended prompts, with teacher-defined model answers and a limited number of attempts), and essays (source-based writing and long-form writing, scored according to the teacher's rubric).
- Standards alignment and scoring: assignments align with federal, state, and international standards, covering K-12 through university. It supports custom standards and performance levels, automatic scoring, and written feedback.
- Create your own AI figures: teachers can create an AI figure or tutor in minutes based on a name, a short biography, and their own materials, and share it with students via a link, with no account required for students. Primary sources and course materials can be uploaded so that the AI answers from those materials. Teachers have already created more than 20,000 of their own AI figures on the platform.
- Community library: teachers can share the content they create with other teachers on the platform, and each item shows who shared it, making it easy to contact them by email. Shared items undergo AI checks of text and images before becoming visible across schools, and teachers can report violating content. Students cannot browse the library and can only access it through the teacher's own link, and author names are not displayed.
- Languages and interaction: supports more than 50 languages, including English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Arabic, Chinese, and Korean. It can be accessed throughAsk questions by text or live voice; in voice mode, students can converse with AI characters and receive spoken answers in real time. Text mode can include images, math, tables, and scans of original documents.
- Model selection: The platform runs on GPT, Claude, and Gemini, offering a total of 9 chat models to choose from, ranging from lightweight and fast to deep reasoning.
- Teaching assistance: Can generate debate, essay, historical simulation, interview, or open-question assignments within 30 seconds; AI grades according to the teacher's rubric and writes feedback; it can also generate study materials, lesson plans, rewrite text by reading level, and build rubrics.
- Reading level settings: A reading level can be set for each class or group, from elementary school to university and adult learners.
How to use Teachers can try it for free; students join via a link and do not need to create an account. Teachers can generate assignments, run interviews/debates/simulations on the platform, and have AI grade and provide feedback. In panel mode, teachers select 2 to 10 characters (including self-created ones or ones shared by others), students ask questions to the whole panel or to specified characters, and can switch to discussion mode to let the characters debate among themselves.
Use cases Suitable for social studies classrooms (around the C3 inquiry arc, practicing DBQ, LEQ, aligned with state standards, AP, and IB), history classes (characters from various periods answer based on historical documents), language arts (students ask questions about what writers actually wrote, or build AI characters from the novel they are reading), world languages (characters speak more than 50 languages, and conversations can take place in the language being taught), science (interview scientists who conducted experiments, with their publication records behind the answers), AI literacy (each citation can open the original document, and students practice verifying AI rather than blindly trusting it).
Limitations and notes Students cannot browse the community library; shared content can only be accessed through a teacher link and does not show the author's name. Shared items undergo AI review, but the platform has no manual pre-approval, and teachers can report violating content. Grading applies only to what students wrote, not to what the AI characters say. Other features, fees, prices, or effectiveness information not explicitly stated are not currently provided.
