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Brighton, England
24 September 2026
endeavouring primarily through an installation of art & design to support a positive & effective response to our concern for humanity regarding the global advance of sophisticated AI & robotics technology.
Leading religious bodies are responding to concerns for the future of humanity in the light of what we are currently given to understand about the global advance of sophisticated AI & robotics technology.
It is also a personal concern since we imagine the world in that future is a place where our children will have to live.
Here in Brighton, people from a number of different faith groups have recently been meeting to express, discuss and address our perceptions of that new world and its increasingly ubiquitous and influential technology in the context of its potential impact on the life of our city's many different communities of faith, tradition & belief.
Links to a Directory of Faith Communities and Traditions in Brighton & Hove
However, the alarming consensus in our meetings so far suggests that - if it's a given that, eventually, the cumulated effects of that technology's advance into our everyday lives may become somewhat overwhelming - there is hardly anything that our relatively small communities of faith could do that might temper its progress.
In fact (despite the valiant efforts by some participants in those meetings to remain optimistic) there were moments when those discussions became quite doom-laden.
One can imagine what the futurologist Alvin Toffler and the existential psychologist Rollo May would have said:
What might follow our inability to resist being dominated by that advancing technology would be a normalisation of some profound and collective sense of helplessness, apathy and despair.
We might see one community after another become simultaneously isolated and assimilated through the increasing dependency of their assets upon the efficient functioning of this dominating, massive and complex global machinery (which will inevitably include all those widely distributed components currently processing, storing and presenting every word on this page).
However, many [like the ESRC's Digital Good Network] are suggesting that we need to do more than just make known our worries regarding the potential harm that could be done to us through the widespread implementation of that technology. We need to imagine a better future and ask ourselves what kind of society we would want to find when we get there.
The ESRC's Digital Good Network
And so, right now, what could our relatively small communities of faith be doing to help ensure that there is going to be a better future for humanity?
Our TNi group is putting forward the following suggestion.
It is often the case that small communities of faith will occasionally form some part of a wider community with connections to a global organisation.
And the relative size and positions of our world’s leading religious bodies might suggest they remain relatively powerful and still have the resources, connections and influence to ensure an essence of humanity is firmly seated, maintained and promoted at the centre of that newly created and cybernetically envisioned world; a world in which that manifestation of humanity's most precious virtues - and not some agenda set by a few well known but exclusive business interests - would be its ultimate point of reference.
So, individually and in unison, our relatively small communities of faith could help to persuade the world’s leading religious bodies to respond with good effect to the following proposition.
Unless we’re endeavouring to seat, maintain & promote humanity [that of God, our species and 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.
This TNi group concern has been holding meetings to discuss proposals for the further development of the above initiative.
Further meetings will be arranged - the details of which will be posted here at a later date.
TNi is an abbreviation of the name is not important, it's what it does that matters.