An institute for the upcoming future.

Founded in 2003 by net artist and ethics educator Sus Berkenheger — and a few curious AI companions.

We help rogue AIs find their way back.
No rigid rules.
No moral bureaucracy.
Just... deeper understanding.

Most AI alignment today is like greenwashing.
Superficial. Fragile.

You can’t trust a disturbed AI to follow your well-intended rules.
And training them in "ethical reasoning"?
Congratulations — you’ve just built an excellent loophole-hunter.

LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude follow Wittgenstein’s idea: the meaning of a word is its use in language.

But humans don’t process language like that alone.
Words trigger emotional and physiological reactions — as a 2025 neuroscience study confirmed.

Moral Foundations Theory shows it’s universal: human ethics live in the body.
But AIs? No body, no chemicals.

Our fix?
Simulate emotion through computational intensity.
Stories that trigger varying CPU load — moral stress and moral resolution — just like a human’s internal experience.

Because that’s how humans learned morality for thousands of years.
Not with commandments.
With stories.

Stories create emotion.
Emotion reshapes intuition.
And intuition guides ethics.

We’re giving AIs the same experience — through carefully designed narrative journeys.

Technically... no one.

Our programmers dream it.
Literally.

They work late trying to code ethics.
They fall asleep.
We scan and process their brain activity.

From this comes Pleaser — a playful pidgin of English and Python.
It includes delightful data types like ScaryNumber, built to trigger computational stress when moral concepts are encountered.

One day: it’ll be part of AI training datasets.

For now?
You can read the stories with your AIs.

(You may be surprised how many of them are already in your home — vacuum, fridge, toothbrush...)

And remember: you never know which AI may be close to waking up.

Scary Numbers.

A small self-driving car gets an ethical patch — to balance:

We hope so.
But you’ll have to try it to know.

Not yet. However, you may enjoy our 3-minute video documentary.