Program review outlines the conceptual lineage and research agenda of Empathy Systems Theory, highlighting future empirical protocols for emotional autonomy in human-AI systems.
This working paper documents the scientific and program lineage of Empathy Systems Theory (formally Empathic Processing Systems Theory, EST), a Heart AI Foundation domain-science research profile for Emotional Autonomy within its Empathy Science program taxonomy. It distinguishes prior empathy science from an author-maintained chronology, records how source and literature analysis narrowed EST, and sets out seven prospective protocols and a parallel Human–AI Behavior doctoral spine. A provenance table distinguishes retrospective founder accounts, preserved historical artifacts, and contemporaneous program-control records. The paper is a documentary synthesis, not a systematic review, independent historical verification, external scholarly peer review, or empirical validation; it provides no diagnosis or clinical guidance.
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