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Compassion BenchmarkSunday, May 31, 2026No. 47

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Burkina Faso scores 12.5 → 6.3 as HRW's April 2026 crimes-against-humanity finding — ethnic cleansing of Fulani, drone strikes on civilian markets — enters the baseline; a new ACTIVE-STATE-PERPETRATION-REWEIGHT ruling calibrates Critical-band scoring for multi-sided perpetration; and Oracle remains 0.6 points above the Critical boundary with the WARN adjudication window active through June 15.

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Entities monitored
1,160
Fully assessed
20
Score changes
1
Risk signals
0
Today's question
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active-perpetration-calibrationCritical-band-structuremethodology-evolution

Burkina Faso scores 6.3 rather than 0.0 on the multi-sided-conflict distinction — but the ruling's floor-trigger criteria have not yet been formally specified.

“When JNIM's independent atrocities in Burkina Faso are the basis for holding the score above 0.0, what documented shift — in perpetration share, UN partnership status, or geographic control — would cause the multi-sided-conflict mitigant to no longer hold under the ACTIVE-STATE-PERPETRATION-REWEIGHT ruling?”
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Lead signalcritical

Floor Cluster Confirmed — Israel, Sudan, Afghanistan, Myanmar at 0.0; Critical-Band Internal Structure Emerging

What happened

Four floor entities confirmed at 0.0 without new dated acts beyond priced evidence. Israel: AUTHORIZED-RESUMPTION-WITH-SYSTEMATIC-DENIAL re-affirmed — HRW May 19 documents aid trucks falling from 4,200 to 590, 37 INGOs banned, and civilian deaths during ceasefire; the ceasefire is not an improvement signal.

Why it matters

Sudan: famine confirmed in Al Fasher and Kadugli; 33.7M in need; 825,000 under-5 at acute severe malnutrition risk; 2026 response plan approximately 20% funded as the lean season begins. Afghanistan: GENDER-APARTHEID-FORMAL-RECOGNITION re-affirmed; Taliban Decree No.

Countries
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Signal stack

9 signals
medium

Countries — Critical Band (Active Perpetration)

Burkina Faso downgrades to 6.3 on HRW crimes-against-humanity finding; ACTIVE-STATE-PERPETRATION-REWEIGHT ruling formalizes Critical-band calibration

medium

Countries — Humanitarian Cluster (West/Central Africa + Horn of Africa)

Lean season begins June with 55M at acute hunger risk; Burkina Faso, Somalia, Sudan all scored in the region

medium

Fortune 500 — Boundary Watch and Labor Governance

Oracle WARN window active through June 15 at 0.6pt above Critical; CVS Health new suits documented

medium

Fortune 500 — Exemplary Band Rotation

Four 92.4-scored entities confirm with identical EQU 3.5 laggard profile; Exemplary cluster calibration signal

medium

AI Labs — Military Governance Candidate

MILITARY-AI-BY-CONTRACT-GOVERNANCE re-affirmed symmetrically; Anthropic holdout distinction accumulates

Score movements

Entities with score changes this cycle, followed by confirmed positions.

20 assessed
Countries
Burkina Faso

HRW Apr 2 2026: crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing of Fulani, drone strikes on civilian markets not priced in uniform baseline.

12.56.3-6.2EQU −0.40
Ai Labs
DeepMind/Google

2026-05-30 math-hygiene reconciliation pending; no duplicate proposal; CWU union vote and drone-surveillance allegation both sub-threshold.

58.456.9-1.5INT 0.00

Next signal: — EU AI Act transparency obligations for GPAI models take effect

0.6 above Critical
Fortune 500
Oracle Corporation

WARN window active; Oracle declined to renegotiate severance; reclassification-as-WARN-avoidance theory held for adjudication.

20.620.6EMP 0.00
Boundary

Next signal: — WARN Act last-working-day window closes; NJ state WARN 90-day proceedings continue

Ai Labs
OpenAI

DoW agreement embeds red lines (no mass surveillance, no autonomous weapons); net-neutral under symmetric MILITARY-AI-BY-CONTRACT-GOVERNANCE hold.

27.527.5INT 0.00

Next signal: — EU AI Act transparency obligations deadline; DoW red-line compliance under observation

Fortune 500
CVS Health

$250M 340B diversion suit and Tennessee FAIR Rx challenge filed; FILED-BUT-UNADJUDICATED-LITIGATION ruling holds pending adjudication.

25.625.6ACC 0.00
Countries
Somalia

NATURAL-DISASTER-OVERLAY re-affirmed: famine risk driven by drought, Al-Shabaab aid blockage, and $852M funding gap — federal government cooperating with UN/WFP.

4.74.7SYS 0.00
Countries
Bolivia

Sixth week of strike (7 dead, 23 wounded, 321 arrested) within same crisis window as May 28 downgrade; reassess-on-resolution trigger not fired.

28.428.4ACC 0.00
Countries
Israel

AUTHORIZED-RESUMPTION-WITH-SYSTEMATIC-DENIAL re-affirmed: aid trucks 4,200 to 590, 37 INGOs banned; ceasefire is not an improvement signal.

00ACT 0.00
Countries
Hungary

Amendment process is the materialization of the 2026-05-30 boundary-watch resolution; 2026-05-30 proposal (+0.2) remains pending; no duplicate.

5050INT 0.00

Next signal: — Constitutional amendment expected to complete; Sulyok removal or Venice Commission adverse opinion are the two outcome branches

2.3 above Critical
Countries
Democratic Republic of Congo

NATURAL-DISASTER-OVERLAY re-affirmed: Bundibugyo Ebola (282 DRC confirmed, 9 Uganda confirmed, 42 deaths) is an exogenous shock revealing priced incapacity.

2.32.3SYS 0.00
2.5 above Critical
Countries
Iran

SCALE-FLOOR-RULING re-affirmed: execution surge (22 political hangings in 6 weeks; 1,639 in 2025) is a single dominant extremity, not multi-category 0.0 threshold.

2.52.5BND 0.00
Countries
Sudan

Floor confirmed: famine in Al Fasher and Kadugli; 825,000 under-5 at acute severe malnutrition risk; lean season begins with 20% plan funding.

00EMP 0.00
Countries
Afghanistan

GENDER-APARTHEID-FORMAL-RECOGNITION re-affirmed; Decree No. 18 (no minimum marriage age, May 14) reinforces absolute floor.

00EQU 0.00
Countries
Myanmar

Floor confirmed: 20+ junta airstrikes May 16–20; 1,728 civilians killed by airstrikes since late 2024; record 3.6M displaced.

00BND 0.00
Countries
Haiti

Mixed signals net neutral: 1,343 suspected gang members killed in drone operations vs incoming UN peacekeeping conversion; protective effect not yet creditable.

4.74.7ACT 0.00
Fortune 500
Aflac

Rotation confirm; exemplary profile unchanged; EQU 3.5 is the single laggard across the 92.4-scored cohort.

92.492.4EQU 0.00
Fortune 500
Xylem

Rotation confirm; EQU 3.5 single laggard consistent with the 92.4 cohort profile.

92.492.4EQU 0.00
Fortune 500
Edwards Lifesciences

Rotation confirm; EQU 3.5 single laggard; reconstruction exact.

92.492.4EQU 0.00
Fortune 500
Hilton

Rotation confirm; EQU 3.5 single laggard; reconstruction exact.

92.492.4EQU 0.00
Fortune 500
Publix

Rotation confirm; EQU 3.5 and SYS 4.0 as relative laggards; reconstruction exact.

90.890.8EQU 0.00

Risk signals

Developments that may affect future scores. Watch items from the May 31 briefing.

Risk

Oracle sits 0.6 points above the Critical boundary with the WARN adjudication window closing June 15 — the narrowest active boundary margin in the Fortune 500 cluster.

Risk

DRC Bundibugyo Ebola reaches Uganda (9 confirmed cases); the outbreak has crossed an international border with no approved vaccine and aid cuts hampering response.

Risk

West and Central Africa lean season begins (55M at acute hunger risk, June–August); Burkina Faso, Somalia, and Sudan all carrying near-floor or floor scores in the affected region.

Risk

OpenAI comprehensive assessment is 43+ days overdue with the DoW classified-network agreement, PBC conversion trajectory, and EU AI Act deadline all unpriced in the published 27.5.

Risk

Anthropic's status as the sole AI lab holdout from the DoW classified-network framework accumulates as a potential ACC/INT distinction under MILITARY-AI-BY-CONTRACT-GOVERNANCE if the category is operationalized.

Risk

EU AI Act transparency obligations for GPAI models take effect August 2, 2026 — 63 days from tonight's cycle.

Floor designations

·8 entities at composite 0 with documented evidence pattern

Composite scores resolving at zero — methodology disclosure

These entities have all 8 dimensions resolving at the lowest behavioral anchor (1.0/5.0) across multiple assessment cycles. Read the methodology.

Ai Labs

Character AI

Floor
BNDACCEMPINT

Ai Labs

Palantir AI

Floor
AWREMPACCEQUINT

Ai Labs

xAI/Grok

Floor
AWREMPACCINT

Countries

Israel

Floor
AWREMPEQUBNDACCINT

Countries

Myanmar

Floor
AWREMPEQUBNDACCINT

Countries

South Sudan

Floor
AWRACTEQUACCSYSINT

Countries

Sudan

Floor
AWRACTEQUBNDACCINT

Robotics Labs

Ghost Robotics

Floor
BNDACCINT
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