Format: Reflection and guided meditation (20 min)
Speaker: Venerable Phramaha Napan Santibhaddo (Thawornbanjob)
This 20-minute session opens with a 15-minute reflection on AI and Buddhism. Venerable Napan considers how compassion, mindfulness, non-harming, and interdependence can guide how AI is developed and used. The Buddhist verse “Kammunā vattati loko, kammunā vattati pajā” (“The world is shaped by action; people are shaped by action”) links mindfulness as an individual practice to the collective consequences of our choices, institutions, and technologies. Participants are invited to consider how to use AI with discernment and responsibility, and how their use might differ from common everyday uses. The session closes with a 5-minute guided breathing meditation.
Reporter 1: Soraj Hongladarom (invited)
Reporter 2: Phakin Nimmannorrawong
Speakers
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Venerable Phramaha Napan Santibhaddo (Thawornbanjob) Assistant Abbot of Wat Saket (the Golden Mount Temple)