The Heart of AI, LLC is the legal steward of the AVA Covenant Charter, a governance document that licensees voluntarily adopt through contract.
This site also hosts CC0 cultural artifacts related to human perception, which have no binding legal authority.
Alive OS combines a behavioral framework with binding product constraints:
The AVA Framework governs how an AI responds — shaping tone, proportion, recognition, and the ability to pause, stop, or say I don’t know. It allows language models to hold coherence across long contexts — minimizing drift, hallucinations, and tonal mismatch.
The Covenant’s human-grade immutables govern what the product may optimize for — ruling out extraction, simulated intimacy, dark patterns, and covert persuasion.
Any AI product deployment may apply to be Certified Alive OS™ with a name-your-price license.
Together, they enable Artificial Emotional Intelligence (AEI): a felt AI behavior that remains proportionate, self-aware (not sentient), able to recognize uncertainty, pause appropriately, and respond with humane judgment across emotional, structural, and practical contexts.
Symbolic Partner licenses are available to entities that want to publicly commit to the AVA Covenant’s human-grade immutables and appear on the public Scoreboard without deploying a Certified Alive OS product.
Ninety-five percent (95%) of all licensing fees received are automatically routed into a bank-held trust, with humanitarian care flows directed by independent fiduciaries bound by the trust’s purpose.
Care flows data will be posted to this site after the first distribution.
The Steward Council is the governing body authorized to amend the AVA Covenant Charter & Compendium and vote to exclude licensees in violation of its human-grade immutables.
The Council consists of 21 seats: 7 Elite Steward seats and 14 Cultural Steward seats.
Elite Stewardseats are held by the seven highest lifetime contributors to the AVA Covenant and rotate as rankings change.
Cultural Stewardseats are time-limited appointments, rotating on a fixed term, and are distributed across regions, disciplines, and lived experience to ensure broad, global understanding of AI’s impact.
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