Human-Level AI Requires Compassionate Intelligence

Human-level AI will require much more than just common sense about the world. It will require compassionate intelligence to guide interaction and build applications of the future. The cognition of such an agent includes Metacognition: thinking about thinking, thinking about feeling, and thinking about others’ thoughts and feelings. We summarize the core meta-architectures and meta-processes of EM-2, a meta-cognitive agent that uses affective inference and an irrational TMS, the I-TMS, to resolve the turf war between thoughts and feelings based on agent personality rather than logic. The work is inspired by a human mind training process from India called Vipassana and 17th century commonsense philosopher David Hume. Although separated by more than 2000 years they both present a philosophy of mind where emotion is the antecedent to logical thought.