February 2026
Timeline of the AGI Movement
An ideological history that underpins today's AI development.
Read on Substack >Buddhism & AI Initiative
Advancing Buddhist engagement with the development and impacts of AI through shared learning, convenings, and technical projects.
Our vision
Buddhist wisdom contributing to personal and societal transformation in the age of AI.
Why this work
AI marks a new evolutionary turning point for humanity
We believe Buddhism can help shape this evolution for the better — resisting both the concentrations of power driving the AI race and the temptation to withdraw out of fear or disavowal.
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Mapping the field
We've spoken with 150+ teachers, technologists, and practitioners to understand who is working at the intersection of Buddhism and AI, and where the field needs to go.
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Convening dialogue
We are organizing workshops, conferences, and field-building conversations that bring together communities who are often working in silos.
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Educating communities
We offer programs that equip practitioners and sanghas to engage AI with discernment — understanding both the technology and its deeper implications for practice and daily life.
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Guiding technical projects
We collaborate with partner organizations and AI labs to bring Buddhist perspectives into conversations shaping the development of AI.
Field framework
Six domains where Buddhism meets AI.
Based on 150+ conversations with stakeholders across Buddhist institutions, AI organizations, and academic centers, we’ve identified six intersecting domains — each with its own communities, challenges, and potential for impact.
Explore the full framework >AI ➝ Buddhism
Technology that supports Buddhist scholarship and practice, from digitization and translation efforts, to philology tools, to Buddhist chatbots.
- Translation Organizations
- Digitization and Data
- Language and Research Technologies
- Applications
Buddhism ➝ AI
Buddhist-informed approaches to research and technology, from computational contemplative neuroscience, to scaling meditation tools, to AI alignment and direct AI lab engagement.
- Computational Neuroscience
- AI Alignment - Research and Technology
- Contemplative Projects at AI Labs
- AI-Supported Meditation
Scholarship
A highly interdisciplinary domain that draws on Buddhist resources to expand conceptual frontiers around mind, ethics, and society, and to inform practice, design, and policy.
- Mind, Consciousness, and Metaphysics
- Ethics and Moral Development
- Self, Agency, Personhood
- Cognition, Attention, Affect
- Culture and Society
Teaching
The communal and existential dimension of Buddhism in response to AI, concerned with the felt experience of living through the intelligence revolution and its impact on identity, purpose, work, economy, and ecology.
- Buddhist Teachers and Sanghas
- Mindful Tech and AI Use
- AI Training for Wisdom Holders
- Contemplative Retreats on AI
Governance
Realpolitik and policy-focused efforts, from Buddhist moral leadership, government, and grassroots action. A largely unrealized domain at present.
- AI Policy and Governance
- Government & Infrastructure Projects
- Multifaith Coalitions Including Buddhists
- Engaged Buddhists & Civic Action
Ecosystem
The connective elements–convenings, philanthropy, and networks—that are supporting this emerging field and seeding collaborations across the other domains.
- Convenings and Conferences
- Networks and Working Groups
- Publishers and Media
- Foundations and Funders
- Miscellaneous
Collaborators
Community workshops
Bringing contemplative wisdom to the age of AI.
We offer workshops for Buddhist communities and sanghas who want to engage the subject of AI more critically. Through embodied practice and compassionate dialogue, we create space for practitioners at all levels of tech engagement — including those who choose not to use AI — to discern their own path forward.
Participants gain a clear, accessible introduction to the technology, examine how AI is reshaping attention and intention, and explore what “right relationship” with these technologies might look like in daily life.
Writing
Dispatches from the field
February 2026
Safeguarding Attention
A Buddhist approach to data governance — insights from a United Nations commission.
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Why Buddhism and AI?
The "strange attractors" between Buddhist thought and AI alignment.
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