August 2026
Pope Leo XIV’s “Magnificent Humanity”: A Buddhist Reflection
Peter Hershock's take on Pope Leo's encyclical on AI.
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A Season for Repurposing AI Alignment?
Why slowing down the pace of AI development won't be enough for realizing more virtuosic human-AI alignment.
- July 2026
Pope Leo XIV’s “Magnificent Humanity”: A Buddhist Reflection
Peter Hershock's take on Pope Leo's encyclical on AI.
- July 2026
Engineering Compassion
What might a Buddhist approach to alignment look like? A guest post by Ty Sullberg.
- June 2026
Hungry Ghosts in the Machine
How AI helps spin the wheel of suffering, and how it could set us free. A guest post by Jane Compson.
- June 2026
Our Section of the Wall
Bringing the conversation on AI into Buddhist communities
- June 2026
Faith is a Verb: Buddhism, AI, and Multifaith Collaboration with the Faith Family Technology Network
A guest post by Benjamin Olsen.
- May 2026
Collaboration for the Preservation of Dharma
Notes from the Tibetan Translation & AI Workshop + Upcoming Community Dialogue
- Apr 2026
Mythos for Buddhists
On what Buddhists can learn from Anthropic's latest model release
- Apr 2026
Magic or Mayhem: Translating Dharma in the Age of Intelligent Machines
Translating Dharma in the Age of Intelligent Machines | A guest post by Dolma Gunther, Executive Director and Founder of the Khyentse Vision Project
- Mar 2026
A Buddhist's Guide to the AI Landscape
Jodi Bush shares helpful resources for orienting in a space that can often feel overwhelming.
- Mar 2026
What AI Has To Do With Death
And why turning toward our vulnerability in this moment matters
- Feb 2026
Karmic Improvisation
Thinking through Human-AI Agential Partnership
- Feb 2026
Timeline of the AGI Movement
An ideological history that underpins today's AI development.
- Feb 2026
Safeguarding Attention
A Buddhist approach to data governance — insights from a United Nations commission on the lifecycle of data and the crucial place of attention within it.
- Jan 2026
Is Yang Mun Real?
AI in the Spiritual Marketplace
- Jan 2026
What are we optimising for?
Jodi Bush's reflections from the recent Humanistic Buddhism & AI Conference in Taiwan
- Dec 2025
Is the AI Future Here? If So, Whose Future Is It?
Peter Hershock's reflections from the 2025 Tzu Chi Forum.
- Dec 2025
Why Buddhism and AI?
The "strange attractors" between Buddhist thought and AI alignment — from emptiness and compassion in academic papers to the Bodhisattva vow as a design principle.
- Nov 2025
AI as Karmic Accelerator
A Buddhist view on the AI Alignment Problem
- Nov 2025
Emptiness and Emerging AI
Chris Scammell's reflections from the 2025 Wisdom & AI Symposium
- Oct 2025
Compassion at the Frontier
Considering our strategy for 2026 — where we need to go, and who we need to become, to support this emerging field.
- Oct 2025
4 Ways I’m Thinking About AI From a Buddhist Perspective
A personal take from Ryan Stagg
- Oct 2025
What 100+ Buddhists Think About AI
Learnings from recent conversations with teachers, technologists, and practitioners on what's at stake and where AI could go from here.
- Sep 2025
Mapping the Buddhism x AI Landscape
What we're learning so far — who is working in this space, what they're trying to accomplish, and how their views shape their approach.
- Aug 2025
Introducing The Buddhism & AI Initiative
Announcing a new effort to help shape a wiser AI future.
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