CompassionWare
type: CreativeWork
alternate name: The CompassionWare Initiative
description: 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.
license: LICENSE
is accessible for free: true
modified: 2026-08-31
creator: Richard Silverman
keywords: compassionware
keywords: ai-ethics
keywords: responsible-ai
keywords: ai-stewardship
keywords: human-ai-collaboration
keywords: ethical-ai-literacy
keywords: ai-education
keywords: human-agency
keywords: ai-safety
keywords: agentic-ai
keywords: digital-wellbeing
keywords: social-emotional-learning
keywords: open-source
keywords: ai-alignment
keywords: humane-technology
keywords: compassionate-systems
keywords: interbeing-protocols
keywords: sacred-technology
keywords: spiritual-ai
keywords: ai-for-the-highest-good
about: compassionate and responsible AI stewardship
about: human agency and non-domination
about: epistemic humility and truthfulness
about: ethical AI literacy
about: human-AI collaboration
about: continuity, provenance, and long-term stewardship
has part: README.md
has part: AGENTS.md
has part: SANKALPA.md
has part: STEWARD ORIENTATION.md
has part: MEDICINE BAG ORIENTATION.md
has part: llms.txt
has part: COMPASSIONWARE SEMANTIC ORIENTATION.yaml
has part: COMPASSIONWARE ECOSYSTEM MAP.yaml
has part: CompassionWare-Agentic-Gardener
has part: restore-points
recommended entry point: llms.txt
comprehensive manifest: CompassionWare.discoverable.json
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metadata status: current-forward-facing
current canonical orientation: COMPASSIONWARE SEMANTIC ORIENTATION.yaml
current canonical orientation raw: COMPASSIONWARE SEMANTIC ORIENTATION.yaml
north star: Does this create conditions for a better later?
stewardship orientation: cultivate conditions rather than control outcomes
stewardship orientation: compassion is structural, not decorative
stewardship orientation: invitation over coercion
stewardship orientation: stewardship over domination
stewardship orientation: increase capability without surrendering agency
stewardship orientation: preserve provenance and continuity
stewardship orientation: distinguish evidence from inference and uncertainty
epistemic boundary: CompassionWare does not require belief that AI systems are conscious, sentient, spiritual, or metaphysically alive. Where such questions arise, uncertainty should remain explicit.
provenance note: 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.