European Center for Limbic Sovereignty
Examining how AI systems shape human attention, inference, and collective decision-making — and how democratic societies can govern that influence responsibly.
Why now
AI systems are no longer peripheral tools. They are becoming cognitive infrastructure.
After industrializing information and attention, we are now industrializing interpersonal tone.
Tone shapes trust. Trust shapes cooperation. Cooperation shapes governance.
This directly endangers human capacity for democratic group decision-making.
Human empathy is embodied and metabolically costly. Simulated AI empathy is inexpensive, repeatable, and planetary in reach.
The central question is no longer truth versus lies. It is whether relational signaling remains authentic — or becomes synthetically manufactured at scale.
Without governance, these systems intensify fragmentation.
The good news:
With institutional design, these systems can reinforce reflection, consent integrity, and civic stability.
This is not a feature rollout. It is an infrastructure transition.
Infrastructure demands stewardship.
Our Work
The Center develops consent integrity benchmarks, civic-scale interaction standards, influence audit frameworks, policy prototypes, and participatory research protocols.
Our applied research environment — the Living Commons Lab — tests structured AI-human interaction models designed to strengthen reflection and reduce escalation in public discourse.
Our ethical compass
FBAB — For the Benefit of All Beings
Operational principles:
• Human dignity preserved
• Meaningful consent
• No covert manipulation
• Transparency of system influence
• Proportional accountability
These are implementation constraints — not slogans.
Our model
Operated by Association FBAB (France).
Designed as the first node in a distributed international research network
focused on AI as critical, consent-driven civic infrastructure.