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The Buddhist Monk Shaping Artificial Intelligence

The Buddhist Monk Shaping Artificial Intelligence

A Buddhist monk is actively architecting the ethics of global artificial intelligence. Tenzin Priyadarshi teaches at MIT and co-founded a major fund to ensure emerging technologies align with human compassion.

While we often associate monks solely with monasteries, Priyadarshi spends his time bridging the gap between ancient philosophy and cutting-edge silicon. He believes that tech developers need deep ethical training to prevent AI from causing unintended societal harm. By collaborating with prestigious institutions like Harvard and MIT, he helps translate timeless mindfulness into digital governance. It is a rare example of spiritual wisdom directly guiding the future of machine intelligence.

Source: Tenzin Priyadarshi

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