October 2023
Building on the AI + inner transformation interview, here's last week's addresss to several thousand folks at global Inner Development Goals Summit in Sweden ... Video of a longer workshop the next day was also quite resonant. If you haven't yet checked out any…
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Last week, we were invited to offer our vision to several thousand changemakers at a global Inner Development Goals Summit in Sweden. Below is the plenary on "AI + Heart Intelligence" from the ServiceSpace lens ... it felt like people were quite hungry for such a narrative! …
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Post-dinner, two of us were sharing heart-to-heart stories. Then a third, fourth, fifth and sixth person organically magnetized. Stories veered in the direction of Gandhi, MLK, Mandela. And Rwanda. The vibe continued to elevate. Then he spoke: "Can I share something?" "I'm…
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In latest news, we've launched BatGap Bot -- BatGap (Buddha at the Gas Pump) is a platform that has, for couple decades, been host to "stories of ordinary friends and neighbors experiencing spiritual awakenings." It is perhaps one of the richer repositories of consciousness-expanding…
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[Notes from today's call, following our previous invitation .] One of the hottest issues in AI these days is "alignment" -- that AI systems support the best interest of humans. OpenAI just announced that 20% of its resources will be dedicated to this. But align to what kind of human? To…
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Dear Service Fellows, Since our first call 10 days ago, a lot has been brewing . Below, I'll share more about various innovative bots we've piloted. Putting aside the hyperbole around AI (temporarily :)), think of this as a far more effective way to do Google search. Instead of…
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Phong Nguyen wrote his first novel, " Many Lives, Many Times " in 2020. In the US, he is better known as John Vu, an engineering professor. After his first volume, he wrote a second volume. It has already sold a million copies! (FYI, you can have NYT best-seller with 5 thousand copies sold.) Now,…
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Just returned from two weeks in Europe, and still feeling into the many ripples ... like London retreat (video by Sallyann!), the launch of a 30-day Karma Kitchen in Vienna (including a viral Tik Tok video that's been viewed almost a million times!), a CEO summit where my keynote was…
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AI is all the buzz these days. From a short-term perspective, it evokes tremendous uncertainty and fear; from a medium-term perspective, it feels like an engine for massive disruption (at best, rewriting all the rules of order and at worst, risking mass extinction); and from an infinite…
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AI is all the buzz these days. From a short-term perspective, it evokes tremendous uncertainty and fear; from a medium-term perspective, it feels like an engine for massive disruption (at best, rewriting all the rules of order and at worst, risking mass extinction); and from an infinite…
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