Tag: Digital Commons

Book cover for 'A Eucharistic Framework for AI Governance' featuring a glowing central chalice with circular blueprints and a scroll on the left.

Episode 73: Critique | A Eucharistic Framework for AI Governance – Can a theological vision of life-serving technology become an actionable constitutional and technical architecture?

Can a Eucharistic vision of technological power become a practical blueprint for AI governance? Episode 73 examines three challenges facing From Consumption to Communion: translating theological concepts for pluralistic audiences, integrating mythic and systems language more smoothly, and converting constitutional principles into operational designs. The critique is constructive but also requires qualification: open source, federated learning, and technical decentralization do not by themselves guarantee communion, justice, or human flourishing. Read More

Book cover for 'The Danger of Perfectly Aligned AI' by Dr. Bichara Sahela0with subtitle 'Episode 71 • Deep Dive'—features a glowing blue compass over a stormy sea and a sailing ship with a skull flag in the background, all in dark tones suggesting mystery and danger.

Episode 71: Deep Dive | The Danger of Perfectly Aligned AI – Why technical obedience cannot protect us when the system itself serves extraction

A perfectly aligned AI may still serve a predatory institution. Episode 71 examines why technical obedience is insufficient without examining allegiance: the deeper economic, political, and civilizational order that technology reproduces. Moving through the Grail and Lance, Moloch and Mammon, institutional autopoietization, cognitive enclosure, and the Eucharistic inversion of power, this Deep Dive asks whether AI enlarges human capacity—or quietly consumes it. Read More

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Episode 14: Governing for Shared Life Capacity: Life-Coherent Politics and the Worlds We Conserve

A deep dive into life-coherent politics and the governance of shared life capacity. This episode asks whether our political, economic, legal, and digital systems protect the life ground — or whether people, communities, ecosystems, and attention are being consumed to keep the system running. Read More

Book cover with a globe on the right, leafy branches on the left, and gold decorative lines, reading 'Toward Life-Knowledge' by Dr. Bichara Sahely.

Episode 6: When the Word Becomes Flesh: AI, Babel, and the Institutions We Build

A deep dive into artificial intelligence, institutional power, and the life-coherent test of the systems we are building. This episode asks whether AI will amplify Babel’s architecture of extraction, control, and abstraction — or serve Nehemiah’s work of shared repair, human dignity, and knowledge in service of life. Read More