Format: Invited Talk (opens Day 2)
Speaker: Soraj Hongladarom
Soraj Hongladarom brings a Buddhist philosophical perspective to the ethics of artificial intelligence, asking what it would mean to design and govern AI around interdependence, compassion, and the reduction of suffering rather than efficiency or profit alone. Drawing on his book The Ethics of AI and Robotics: A Buddhist Viewpoint, his concept of ‘machine enlightenment’ suggests that technical capability is not enough. AI systems should also be judged by their ethical development and their effects on human flourishing. His talk considers how Buddhist ideas about personhood, responsibility, attachment, and interconnectedness can challenge assumptions in AI ethics and contribute a distinctly non-Western framework for thinking about what genuinely beneficial AI should be.
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Soraj Hongladarom Professor at the International Buddhist Studies College, Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University