In Brighton, England
17 May 2026
A concern for the future of humanity has surely been sitting at the heart of every community of faith & tradition since the dawn of civilisation.
Today, we share that great concern with everyone who will be noticing increasing amounts of alarming speculation in the media focusing on the almost unbelievable potential claimed for that powerfully advanced machinery which is coming to dominate our lives.
Initiatives (such as digitalgood.net and letstalkai.org.uk, promoted by university departments with specific funding from government led programmes) are now working to engage members of the public in a wider discussion to address many of the concerns which have been expressed regarding the widespread implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) and related robotics technologies.
In the meanwhile, there have been several meetings which have brought together groups from some of our different faith groups here in Brighton to discuss how that technology might soon impact upon all our communities, traditions and beliefs. But the current consensus seems to be that, where the daily effect of that technology could become somewhat overwhelming, there may be very little that we could do to alter its course.
However, the suggestion here is that our world’s leading religious bodies (because of their size and position) might still possess the necessary power, resources, connections and influence to ensure that humanity continues to be the ultimate reference point, firmly seated & accessible in the centre of this new internet-shaped world dominated by a set of extremely sophisticated technologies: ensuring that no control of that place will become entirely subordinate to the agendas set by a few well known but exclusive business interests.
So, it is the purpose of this website to ask the world’s leading religious bodies to respond to the following proposition.
Unless we’re endeavouring to seat, maintain & promote humanity [that of God, our species & its virtues] at the heart of the internet, then something else will be sitting in our place, and it will imagine nothing in the universe greater than itself.
The open meeting (for anyone interested in helping to develop this website and some of its associated installations of expeditionary art & design) which would have been at the Friends' Meeting House in Ship Street, Brighton on Sunday the 17th of May 2026 at 1:30 pm in Room, Six has been cancelled following a communications problem.