Empathy in AI

An empathy test where being kind costs you something

Most empathy questionnaires ask how you would feel. This one asks what you would give up.

The assessment presents seven short scenarios in front of you, each with a real cost. Being kind is never free: helping someone means giving up something you would rather keep. That is the whole point — it is the trade-off, not the sentiment, that tells you something.

Three scores, not one

You are graded on three separate things, plus an overall score:

When AI Learns to Feel: A Weekend of Building ai_empathy

Sometimes progress doesn’t come from long roadmaps or perfectly planned sprints.

Sometimes… it comes from a quiet weekend.


This weekend, I found myself going deeper into something I’ve been thinking about for a while:

Can AI make decisions that feel… human?

Not just correct.
Not just efficient.
But empathetically right.

That thought turned into something tangible — a Drupal module I’ve been building:
ai_empathy