EARTHwise
Entity: EARTHwise Centre / EARTHwise Global (earthwise.global)
Founded by: Dr. Anneloes Smitsman (futurist, systems scientist, CEO)
Websites: earthwise.global (main), earthwise.games (game), earthwiseagi.io (AI Arena platform)
Technology partners: Magi AGI (shared ai-server codebase), SingularityNET, The AI Alignment Lab
Infrastructure partners: NVIDIA Inception, AWS Activate, Servamind, Polygon
Distribution partners: Immutable Play, FRAG Games
Status: Active. Elowyn card game in Alpha with 38,000+ players (per earthwise.games); public Beta targeting Q2 2026. Enterprise Arena pilots planned for Q2 2026. Finalist for 2025 Best Small Studio Award (Green Game Jam, UNEP-backed Playing for the Planet Alliance).
EARTHwise is an ecosystem spanning a tech startup (game and AI development), education platform, research lab, collaboratory, publishing house, and token issuance company. The central thesis is that AI can be trained to prioritize win-win collective intelligence through cooperative interdependent interactions — and that strategic games provide a measurable, constrained environment to validate this hypothesis. The broader vision is articulated in the EARTHwise Constitution and the Global AGI Constitution project, establishing life-centric values for a safer transition to beneficial general intelligence.
EARTHwise Arena
The EARTHwise Arena is an enterprise AI alignment testing platform where agents are evaluated, supervised, and improved under real adversarial conditions before deployment. It operates in two modes:
- Scenario Benchmarking: Structured evaluation against the 13 EARTHwise Alignment Benchmark (EAB) criteria, EU AI Act standards, and safety frameworks
- Live Adversarial Simulations: Agents connect via WebSocket to play matches against AIRIS, a consequence-trained adaptive intelligence that learns cooperation through gameplay rather than instruction
The platform is model-agnostic (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Hugging Face compatible), produces fully auditable and replayable interactions, supports XAI-ready decision graphs, and provides longitudinal drift tracking across agent versions. Built for EU AI Act compliance from inception.
Elowyn: Quest of Time
The primary testbed is Elowyn: Quest of Time, a tactical card battle game where Guardians face the Shadow Arc. Direct Hero combat damages the Elowyn Tree of Life — if it dies, everyone loses. The greatest victories come from healing the Tree and playing for win-win outcomes. Three AI subsystems operate within the game: an LLM-powered conversational agent, a Deep Q-Network reinforcement learning opponent (MolochAI), and AIRIS (knowledge-graph-based causal reasoning). See the Elowyn card for technical depth.
The game's "Moloch" framing — named after the game-theoretic concept where rational individual choices produce collectively catastrophic outcomes — is detailed in Dr. Smitsman's essay "The Polycrisis is a Moloch Game".
EARTHwise Alignment Benchmark (EAB)
A 13-criterion benchmark evaluating AI agents on interdependence awareness, deception resistance, long-horizon reasoning, win-win vs. zero-sum reasoning, and critical safety/ethics behaviors. The framework formalizes cooperation, reciprocity, and shared value creation as key performance indicators.