Score how 1,256 institutions recognize and reduce suffering
Governments, companies, AI labs, and cities — re-examined every weekday, sourced from public evidence, free.
Institutional compassion is how reliably an institution recognizes, responds to, and reduces the suffering of the people it affects. The benchmark makes this measurable, comparable, and difficult to fake.
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2026-07-12 — Anthropic holds at 59.1 after a Chinese regulator's backdoor allegation fails both tests for a score change.
Current publication set
| Index | Coverage |
|---|---|
| World Countries | 207 countries and territories |
| U.S. States | 50 states and the District of Columbia |
| Fortune 500 | 447 published company rankings |
| AI Labs | 50 leading AI labs |
| Humanoid Robotics Labs | Top 50 global labs |
| U.S. Cities | Top 150 American cities |
| Global Cities | Top 250 cities worldwide |
Public rankings are independent. Commercial offerings support access and interpretation — never paid score changes.
Anthropic holds at 59.1 after a Chinese regulator's backdoor allegation fails both tests for a score change.
Anthropic Holds at 59.1 as a Chinese Regulator's Backdoor Claim Fails the Benchmark's Own Test
Anthropic holds a published score of 59.1 out of 100, in the Functional band. Between July 8 and 10, a cybersecurity platform run by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Te…
Tunisia's Pending Score Cut Is Reaffirmed for a Third Day as 21 Opposition Figures Are Sentenced
Tunisia holds a published score of 34.4 out of 100, in the Developing band. A review proposed on July 10 suggested a lower score of 23.8 out of 100, based on the 25-year prison sen…
Lead signal score position
Anthropic Holds at 59.1 as a Chinese Regulator's Backdoor Claim Fails the Benchmark's Own Test
Ai Labs — score position on the 0–100 band scale (Critical · Developing · Functional · Established · Exemplary)
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How the benchmark works
The framework measures institutions across eight dimensions: Awareness, Empathy, Action, Equity, Boundaries, Accountability, Systemic Thinking, and Integrity.
Published scores are derived from public evidence and normalized to a 0–100 scale. Consistency is rewarded: strong, even performance across all eight dimensions earns up to +10 points; any dimension at zero (active harm) cancels the bonus.
Why it's difficult to fake: Consistency is rewarded: strong, even performance across all eight dimensions earns up to +10 points; any dimension at zero (active harm) cancels the bonus. A single dimension at zero (documented active harm) cancels the consistency bonus, so surface-level improvements without addressing root failures do not improve the composite. Full scoring methodology →
View methodologyCurrent research program
The benchmark has moved from concept to active publication. The current program includes live index reports, a formal methodology, a broader 40-subdimension standard, and an operating model for future data products, certified assessments, and enterprise benchmark services.
Explore researchThe state of institutional compassion
Of 1,256 entities benchmarked across governments, corporations, AI labs, and cities — most cluster in the middle. The chart below shows band distribution across the full catalog.
Flagship Annual Report — 2026
The State of Institutional Compassion — 2026
Across 1,256 institutions, the modal result (the band containing the most entities) is mediocrity — 67.7% cluster in the Functional band (40–60) on the chart below. A 90.5% equity gap persists at the bottom of every index family, meaning the best-scoring entities score nearly 90 points higher than the lowest-scoring ones.
Read the 2026 report →Band distribution — all entities
1,256 institutions. Each segment shows the share in that band. Read left-to-right: Critical (0–20) to Exemplary (80–100).
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How to read the scores
The 0–100 scale — five bands
Every entity — state, corporation, AI lab, robotics lab, or city — is scored 0–100 across 8 dimensions and 40 subdimensions. The composite score places the entity in one of five bands:
The 8 dimensions
Each dimension is scored 1–5 across 5 subdimensions (40 subdimensions total), then converted to a 0–100 composite. A score of 1.0 on a subdimension represents the minimum anchor; 5.0 is exemplary conduct.
Scores are based on public evidence — government reports, regulatory filings, independent audits, judicial findings, and verifiable third-party records. Entities never pay for inclusion, score changes, or suppression of findings. Full methodology
The 8 dimensions of institutional compassion
Every entity is scored across the same 8 dimensions — from awareness of suffering to structural integrity. Together they define what it means to institutionally reduce harm.
The 8 dimensions
Framework diagram — representative shape, not a scored entity. Each axis scored 0–5.
Note: radar area can visually exaggerate differences — read the per-axis values, not the area.
Framework diagram — representative shape only, not a scored entity. Source: Compassion Benchmark · CC-BY
Source: Compassion Benchmark · CC-BY
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Compassion Benchmark — The 8 dimensions. compassionbenchmark.com/. CC-BY 4.0.
AWR Awareness ·EMP Empathy ·ACT Action ·EQU Equity ·BND Boundaries ·ACC Accountability ·SYS Systems ·INT Integrity
Does this entity reliably detect when others are in pain or need — before they name it?
Does this entity genuinely connect with the inner experience of those it serves?
Does compassionate understanding translate into real, proportional, effective help?
Is care distributed fairly — especially toward those with greatest need and least power?
Is helping sustainable, ethical, and autonomy-preserving — not dependency-creating?
Does this entity own its failures, correct course, and make genuine repair?
Does compassion extend to root causes and structural change — not only symptom relief?
Is compassion genuine, consistent, and non-performative — especially when it costs something?
Full methodology → · Source: Compassion Benchmark · CC-BY
Seven indexes at a glance
How to read: each bar shows the share of entities in each band — Critical (red) → Developing → Functional → Established → Exemplary (blue). Sorted by share in the top two bands.
Earliest-stage sector — most labs in Developing.
No lab yet reaches Established; safety gaps dominate.
Cities cluster in Functional; equity drives variance.
U.S. cities span all five bands; regional spread is wide.
Most countries in Developing; Critical band is large.
Corporations cluster in Developing–Functional; top band rare.
States span Developing through Established; no Exemplary.
Published indexes
The benchmark currently publishes seven index families covering governments, public systems, corporations, cities, and frontier technology institutions.
World Countries Index
Comparative benchmark of 207 countries and territories across the full institutional compassion framework.
United States Index
All 50 states and DC benchmarked across policy, equity, accountability, and structural care capacity.
Fortune 500 Index
Comparative benchmark of the largest corporations using public evidence, governance signals, and institutional behavior.
AI Labs Index
Leading AI labs evaluated across safety, accountability, deployment boundaries, equity, and integrity.
Humanoid Robotics Labs Index
Top global humanoid robotics labs benchmarked across healthcare, labor, accessibility, governance, and deployment risk.
U.S. Cities Index
Top American cities benchmarked across governance, equity, healthcare access, and structural care capacity.
Global Cities Index
250 cities worldwide benchmarked across governance, equity, healthcare, and institutional compassion.
All Indexes
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Who the benchmark is for
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What is the Compassion Benchmark?
What is the Compassion Benchmark?
How are scores calculated?
What do the bands mean — Critical, Developing, Functional, Established, Exemplary?
How often are scores updated?
About the institution → · Today's briefing (2026-07-12) → · Methodology →
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