Digital Dharma - a reflection on tech ethics and awareness

“AI is made by humans, intended to behave by humans, and, ultimately, to impact humans’ lives and human society.” - Fei-Fei Li  “Logic is the anatomy of thought.” - John Locke  At first glance, the two seem to pull in opposite directions.  Fei-Fei Li sees AI as a reflection, a learner shaped by the footprints we leave behind.  Locke reminds us that thinking isn’t mimicry, it’s reason, the architecture of mind.  Yet, real intelligence probably lives somewhere in-between, half reflection, half design.  AI without data is a philosopher lost in a void.  AI without logic is a mirror with no frame, it reflects endlessly, but never really understands.  That’s where we step in.  We give it the world, and then we try, in our own imperfect humanized way, to explain why the world matters.  Maybe artificial intelligence isn’t just a technical shift after all.  Maybe it’s a quiet philosophical one, a strange partnership between chaos and order, ...

A while ago, I began scribbling notes in a notebook. That’s nothing new for me. I’ve always written down thoughts when they refuse to stay quiet. But this time, it felt different. It started with a conversation with my older son. We were talking about the growing presence of AI in our lives, not just the headlines, but the quiet infiltration into everything we do. We both come from mathematics, and as we unpacked the logic behind GPT, Gemini, Claude, and the rest of the so-called super-intelligences , I felt something shift. Are we slowly losing our place to these engines? Will they replace us as machines once replaced horses in the industrial revolution? And then the darker questions emerged, not just how these systems work, but who guides them. What if someone, somewhere, decided to tilt their logic? Would that be enough to bend truth, to move elections, to steer minds? Could bias, subtle, invisible bias, become the new instrument of control? Where is this all going? Who’s ...