Between Buddhist 'Self-Enlightenment' and 'Artificial Intelligence

South Korea Emerging as a New Balancer

Bibliographic Data

ID3570950
AuthorsJitendra Uttam (Jawaharlal Nehru University, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume14
Issue2
Pages150
Publication date2023-01-28
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligions (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel14020150
OpenAlexW4318472594
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited13

As artificial intelligence (AI) outpaces the human brain, it is invoking wide-spread fear that men and machines are moving into a conflicting zone. Some even suspect that AI machines may one day consider human beings as slow and sloppy, and thus worthy of subordination or elimination. A growing challenge to mitigate the looming crisis requires science to expand its artificially augmented intelligence by incorporating elements from the ethical-spiritual and human universe. Our endeavor to bridge the prevailing gap between science and spirituality focuses on Buddhism, which stands out in its ability to achieve a rare fusion between natural, spiritual and human worlds. This unique synthesis is specifically mediated by Buddhist 'causality', where one aspect explains reality based on a scientifically proven cause and effect paradigm, but the other aspect interprets it by compassionate humanism. It argues that the missing human-spiritual dimension in artificial intelligence can be remedied by the Buddhist concept of 'causally' linked to the idea of 'self-enlightenment'. Being an integral part of Buddhist heritage and a leading player in cutting-edge science, Korea demonstrates abilities to emerge as a new balancer to incorporate the best of science, spiritually and humanism to build next-generation AI machines with distinct human qualities

Buddhism · Enlightenment · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Human intelligence · Humanism · Political science · Sociology · Spirituality · Transhumanism · Chinese history and philosophy · Computer Science · Law · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Artificial Intelligence

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