Aligning Technology with Dharma through a Vedāntic Lens

Artificial intelligence has become the connective layer running through most modern technologies, from social feeds and synthetic media to the compute infrastructure beneath them. In that position it works as an accelerant. It strips away the friction that once limited what a technology could do, and it magnifies both the good and the harm a technology can carry. A recommender that personalizes learning also fuels craving. Generative models that widen access to creative work also erode the shared evidentiary ground that public trust rests on. The same compute that advances climate modeling draws heavily on energy and freshwater.

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Regulation handles the worst of these harms. It says far less about where technology ought to go. This poster develops a complementary account drawn from Vedāntic thought, organized around four principles. Viveka is the discernment of the eternal from the transient. Satya and māyā concern truth and the power of appearance. Vairāgya counsels dispassion as consumption escalates. Vasudhaiva kuṭumbakam, the last, holds that the whole earth forms a single family.