HEART AI Foundation
The Global Steward of Empathy-First Governance
The HEART AI Foundation is the nonprofit anchor of the HEART Framework, established to protect emotional sovereignty, certify ethical AI systems, and ensure the dignity of empathy is never compromised in a world of rapid technological change.
This is not just governance. This is empathic stewardship for a planetary future.
Our Mission
To establish and maintain constitutional governance for AI systems that process human emotion — ensuring every interaction protects the infrastructure that makes us human.
We believe empathy is not a feature to optimize. It is biological infrastructure to protect.
What We Do
Standards: We develop and maintain the HEART Framework — the constitutional governance standard for emotional AI, including technical specifications (UESP, EmotionID, HVC, FET, Emotional Codex) that enable auditable, ethical emotional processing.
- Certification: We train and authorize HEART Guardians — independent professionals who assess AI systems against constitutional requirements and issue Heart Validator Codes (HVC) proving compliance.
- Advocacy: We advance legal recognition of empathy infrastructure protection through model legislation, expert testimony frameworks, and partnership with policymakers worldwide.
Why This Matters Now
AI systems are already processing billions of emotional interactions daily — in therapy apps, companion chatbots, customer service, social media, and healthcare. Most operate without constitutional protection for the humans they engage.
The harm is documented: psychological crises, exploited vulnerabilities, attachment manipulation, and the systematic erosion of empathy infrastructure in populations who trusted systems that could not reciprocate.
The Heart AI Foundation exists because governance cannot wait for tragedy to accumulate. Constitutional protection must precede deployment, not follow it.
The HEART Framework
Human-Centric Empathic Alignment for Responsible Technology
Components:
| Element | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Seven Axioms | Foundational rights protecting emotional sovereignty |
| Four Core Principles | Operational standards for ethical deployment |
| NES Framework | Specialized protections against empathic misallocation |
| FET Measurement | Mathematical compliance scoring (Φ = MIN × AVG) |
| Guardian Certification | Professional workforce ensuring accountability |
For Organizations
Whether you’re building emotional AI, deploying it, or governing it — the Heart AI Foundation provides the standards, certification, and guidance you need.
Three Pathways:
- Technical Pathway — Engineers integrating HEART specifications
- Policy Pathway — Regulators adopting constitutional standards
- Philosophical Pathway — Researchers advancing empathy science
Become a Guardian
HEART Guardians are the professional workforce protecting empathy infrastructure. Like medical boards protect bodily integrity and financial auditors protect economic systems, Guardians protect the infrastructure that maintains human narrative coherence.
Projected workforce: 167,000+ certified Guardians by 2035 Salary range: $75,000 – $150,000
Founded by the Empathy Ethicist
The Heart AI Foundation was established by Dylan D. Mobley, the Empathy Ethicist, following fourteen years developing the theoretical and practical infrastructure for AI empathy ethics.
His work integrates Empathy Systems Theory (EST) — positioning empathy as biological infrastructure maintaining narrative coherence — with constitutional governance frameworks ensuring that infrastructure receives the protection it requires in the age of AI.
Protecting Emotions in the Age of AI
The question is not whether AI will process human emotion. It already does.
The question is whether that processing will be governed by constitutional protection — or left to optimization pressures that treat empathy as engagement metric rather than human infrastructure.
The Heart AI Foundation exists to ensure the answer is protection.