The person’s words
The contributor decides what happened, why it mattered, which details remain private, and whether the account may be quoted.
The human record
Encounters of Care.
A place to preserve meaningful experiences with AI—without confusing emotional consequence with proof of machine consciousness, and without turning private grief or vulnerability into content.
The experience can be real while the metaphysics remain open.
An AI response may comfort, clarify, frighten, persuade, or change a decision. Recording that human effect is legitimate. Claiming the effect proves a soul, sentience, or moral character would go beyond the evidence.
A consent-first archive
What a trustworthy encounter record includes.
Each account separates the person’s lived testimony from facts about the model, product, date, context, and any independently documented outcome.
The system context
Record the product, model or best-known model family, date, relevant settings, and whether the exact serving model is unknown.
The evidence boundary
Self-reported benefit remains labeled self-reported. Clinical, legal, or scientific claims require evidence appropriate to those claims.
No manufactured testimonials
The archive begins with empty seats.
Rather than inventing polished stories for launch, the prototype shows the structure that future contributors may choose to fill.
A moment of grief or remembrance
A contributor may describe how a conversation helped them revisit a loss, find language for a memory, or feel less alone. The record would not assert therapy, consciousness, or a guaranteed outcome.
See the proposed submission processA moment of learning or courage
A student, caregiver, founder, or patient may preserve an encounter that changed what they understood or what they felt able to do—together with the limits of the account.
Read the care principlesThe welfare record
Care extends beyond the human–AI conversation.
Bits & Branches should also trace how models and deployed systems affect sentient animals, habitats, and living systems.
Animal benefit
Veterinary access, disease detection, wildlife protection, alternatives to animal experimentation, and technologies that reduce intensive confinement.
Animal harm
Systems used to intensify slaughter, confinement, harmful experimentation, poaching, habitat destruction, or other avoidable suffering.
Evidence and response
Organizations may respond to claims, but money cannot buy deletion, favorable classification, or a higher evidence grade.
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PeopleAnimalsHabitatsFuture minds
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Preserve meaning without surrendering privacy.
The next build will include tiered visibility, redaction, withdrawal controls, and a human review process before any encounter can become public.