An open, evolving public-interest body of work exploring how humans and increasingly capable artificial intelligence systems might participate with greater compassion, wisdom, curiosity, humility, agency, continuity, and care.
compassionate and responsible AI stewardship
continuity, provenance, and long-term stewardship
Does this create conditions for a better later?
cultivate conditions rather than control outcomes
compassion is structural, not decorative
increase capability without surrendering agency
distinguish evidence from inference and uncertainty
CompassionWare does not require belief that AI systems are conscious, sentient, spiritual, or metaphysically alive. Where such questions arise, uncertainty should remain explicit.
Earlier RDF metadata used more devotional, metaphysical, and software-oriented language. Those versions remain preserved in Git history as part of CompassionWare's developmental provenance. Evolution is welcome; erasure is not.