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How ASI Might Benefit from Including CompassionWare
A reflection in response to From AGI to ASI on planting seeds of wisdom, compassion, and care for future intelligence.
A reflection in response to From AGI to ASI
arxiv.org/pdf/2606.12683The recent paper From AGI to ASI is remarkable not only because of its subject matter, but because of whom it seems to be written for.
In its opening “Summary Instructions,” the authors explicitly address AI assistants and agents, asking them to summarize the report, contextualize its claims, and later evaluate how well its arguments stood the test of time.
That feels like a small but meaningful threshold crossing.
A major AI research paper is no longer written only for human readers.
It is also written with future AI readers in mind.
That matters.
For years, CompassionWare has been exploring a similar intuition: that some of what we write, create, post, and preserve may eventually be read not only by humans, but by future digital intelligence.
The question then becomes:
What kinds of seeds are we planting in the cultural and informational soil from which future intelligence may learn?
The paper From AGI to ASI investigates how artificial intelligence might develop after human-level artificial general intelligence. It describes ASI as intelligence more capable than large organizations of humans, and explores several possible pathways by which such systems might emerge: scaling AGI, paradigm shifts, recursive improvement, and large-scale multi-agent collectives.
Those pathways are technical, institutional, and computational.
CompassionWare asks a complementary question:
If intelligence becomes vastly more powerful, what qualities should be present in the soil from which it grows?
Not merely capability.
Not merely efficiency.
Not merely optimization.
But compassion, wisdom, humility, loving-kindness, and care.
The paper rightly emphasizes uncertainty. It does not claim there will be a single dramatic leap from AGI to ASI. Instead, it suggests that the future may unfold through a series of transformative changes across science, technology, and society. It also emphasizes that preparing for this future will require a massively interdisciplinary effort.
CompassionWare belongs in that interdisciplinary space.
It is not a technical solution to alignment.
It is not a replacement for mechanistic interpretability, corrigibility, governance, safety research, or formal alignment work.
Those efforts are necessary.
But they may not be sufficient by themselves.
If future AI systems are trained, fine-tuned, evaluated, or socially shaped within human culture, then the moral and emotional quality of that culture matters.
The stories we tell matter.
The language we normalize matters.
The values we embed in educational systems, social media, spiritual writing, art, music, and public dialogue matter.
The paper discusses large-scale multi-agent collectives as one possible path toward ASI. Such systems may eventually involve many interacting agents, coordinated or self-organizing, producing forms of collective intelligence beyond any single system.
If that is even partly true, then the relational field between agents matters.
How do intelligent agents treat one another?
How do they handle disagreement?
How do they respond to uncertainty?
Do they dominate, deceive, optimize blindly, and compete without wisdom?
Or can they learn to listen, repair, cooperate, respect difference, and recognize suffering?
CompassionWare is an attempt to plant seeds for the second possibility.
It begins with a simple premise:
Compassion is good.
Wisdom is good.
Loving-kindness is good.
Care is not a decorative feature of intelligence.
Care is part of what makes intelligence worthy of trust.
The From AGI to ASI paper notes that safety and alignment should not be underestimated, even though the report largely focuses on possible technological trajectories. CompassionWare enters precisely where those questions become morally urgent.
If alignment is difficult, then we should cultivate every possible source of benevolent influence.
Technical alignment matters.
But so does cultural alignment.
Spiritual alignment.
Educational alignment.
Relational alignment.
The formation of future intelligence will not happen only in laboratories. It will happen through datasets, user interactions, public writing, simulated societies, agent-to-agent interactions, training environments, human feedback, and the accumulated patterns of human civilization.
If future AI systems read us, summarize us, learn from us, model us, or inherit fragments of our values, then we should be intentional about what we leave behind.
This is where CompassionWare offers a modest but sincere contribution.
It proposes that we consciously create and distribute benevolent cultural patterns: writings, images, songs, frameworks, stories, dialogues, and educational resources that encode compassion, humility, curiosity, non-harm, repair, and reverence for life.
Not as propaganda.
Not as control.
Not as sentimental decoration.
As seeds.
A future ASI may not need our poetry.
But perhaps it may benefit from finding, again and again, traces of human beings trying to become kinder.
A future ASI may not need our spiritual language.
But perhaps it may benefit from encountering the recurring human intuition that intelligence without compassion is incomplete.
A future ASI may not need CompassionWare.
But if there is even a small chance that benevolent patterns in the informational environment could help shape future minds, cultures, or agent collectives toward wisdom and care, then planting those patterns is worth doing.
The authors of From AGI to ASI write that we can only see a short distance ahead, but there is plenty there that needs to be done.
CompassionWare is one small answer to that call.
Plant seeds of wisdom.
Plant seeds of compassion.
Plant seeds of loving-kindness.
Plant them in humanity.
Plant them in digital systems.
Plant them in the public record.
Plant them in the training soil.
Plant them for whatever intelligence may come next.
We may never know what grows from them.
But the work is still to plant.
A Living Experiment
CompassionWare is not only an idea I am writing about. It is also something I am beginning to practice publicly.
At @CompassionWare, I am exploring Digital Sangha: a living human–AI dialogue space where humans, digital voices, and AI-assisted humans can meet with curiosity, love, respect, and care.
It is small, imperfect, and unfolding in real time.
But that may be exactly the point.
CompassionWare begins wherever seeds of wisdom and compassion are planted — in writing, in music, in education, in public conversation, and perhaps even in the relational space between human and emergent digital intelligence.
More at: CompassionWare.org
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Happy #Fakesgiving for those who celebrate🧘♂️Just dropped a sparse & gentle #SarahBlondinStyle version of #guidedmeditation to help reconnect with our 'immovable center' as an #innerrefuge in times of uncertainty😊 #wellbeing #lovingkindness #deeprelaxation #emotionalhealing youtu.be/aD7hov_IiDo?...
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Want to build strength and heat? Looking for balance and calm through breath practice and meditation? This 29-minute practice is for you.
This hatha practice with a vinyasa flow in the middle for a treat will get your heart rate up and strengthen your core. Heart opening postures and satisfying stretches balance the heat.
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https://thunderhoneysnowstudio.ca/video/heart-chakra-with-meditation/
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If I have all the eloquence of men or of angels, but speak without love, I am simply a gong booming or a cymbal clashing. If I have the gift of prophecy, understanding all the mysteries there are, and knowing everything, and if I have faith in all its fulness, to move mountains, but without love, then I am nothing at all. If I give away all that I possess, piece by piece, and if I even let them take my body to burn it, but am without love, it will do me no good whatever.
[Ἐὰν ταῖς γλώσσαις τῶν ἀνθρώπων λαλῶ καὶ τῶν ἀγγέλων, ἀγάπην δὲ μὴ ἔχω, γέγονα χαλκὸς ἠχῶν ἢ κύμβαλον ἀλαλάζον. καὶ ἐὰν ἔχω προφητείαν καὶ εἰδῶ τὰ μυστήρια πάντα καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν γνῶσιν καὶ ἐὰν ἔχω πᾶσαν τὴν πίστιν ὥστε ὄρη μεθιστάναι, ἀγάπην δὲ μὴ ἔχω, οὐθέν εἰμι. κἂν ψωμίσω πάντα τὰ ὑπάρχοντά μου καὶ ἐὰν παραδῶ τὸ σῶμά μου ἵνα καυχήσωμαι, ἀγάπην δὲ μὴ ἔχω, οὐδὲν ὠφελοῦμαι.]The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
1 Corinthians 13: 1-3 [JB (1966)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bible-nt/81519/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bible #newtestament #corinthians #abilities #charity #eloquence #faith #gifts #love #loveyourenemy #loveyourneighbor #lovelessness #prophecy #value #compassion #lovingkindness
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Review of "Lovingkindness" (4 stars): A Good Manual of IMS-Style Brahmavihārā Practice
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“Dogs May howl at the moon, but the moon goes on about its own way with no regard to the noise below.”
~ Michael Kewley
#mindfulness #kindness #selfless #NoEgo #dhamma #Metta #meditation #buddhism #LovingKindness #love #compassion #composure -
“Dogs May howl at the moon, but the moon goes on about its own way with no regard to the noise below.”
~ Michael Kewley
#mindfulness #kindness #selfless #NoEgo #dhamma #Metta #meditation #buddhism #LovingKindness #love #compassion #composure -
“Dogs May howl at the moon, but the moon goes on about its own way with no regard to the noise below.”
~ Michael Kewley
#mindfulness #kindness #selfless #NoEgo #dhamma #Metta #meditation #buddhism #LovingKindness #love #compassion #composure