European Center for Limbic Sovereignty

A research studio where we study AI and language and how the two can enhance democracy across the globe. 

Welcome


I created this center after thirty years of working with fear, illness, public health, storytelling, and human crisis — first during the AIDS epidemic, now in the age of AI.


My work begins with a simple observation: language changes the body.


It can frighten, confuse, seduce, polarize, or calm us. Today, AI systems can do this instantly and at scale.


How research how AI can be used to enhance clearer thinking and supporting humans in their quest to improve and grow democracy across the planet. 


This is currently a founder-led research studio in Saint-Émilion, France, operated by Association FBAB.


We develop small public experiments, writing, films, and future-imagining circles to explore one question: What happens when AI is used to help people think and imagine together, rather than keep them afraid?


Greg Rowe-Pasos

Founder

The Work We are Developing


Current work

  • Monthly Future Imagining Circles
  • Research essays on AI, attention, and limbic sovereignty
  • Public-health storytelling and the film Un Pète au casque
  • Early experiments in AI-assisted calm and collective imagination


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 the French non-profit Association FBAB (France).


Designed as the first node in research focused on AI as critical, consent-driven civic infrastructure.