Tag: From Consumption to Communion

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: 'Whom Does Your AI Serve' with a central glowing sword, a gold chalice to the left, and a blue futuristic city to the right.

Episode 72: Debate | Whom Does Your AI Serve? Can moral allegiance redirect artificial intelligence—or must we first change the game that governs it?

Can artificial intelligence be governed by moral allegiance, or must we first change the competitive system that rewards acceleration and punishes restraint? Episode 72 debates whether a Eucharistic reordering of technological power can redirect AI toward human flourishing—or whether only treaties, liability rules, ecological limits, and hard restrictions can prevent cognitive enclosure and civilizational wasteland. 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

Book cover titled 'Episode 43: Critique The Eucharist Against the Predatory Metabolism' featuring a glowing chalice, bread, and grapes between a dark factory landscape and a sunlit village.

Episode 43: The Eucharist Against the Predatory Metabolism: A Critique of From Consumption to Communion

A critique of From Consumption to Communion focused on strengthening the paper’s structure and practical force. This episode asks how Eucharistic theology and systemic critique can be braided earlier, how diagnostic questions can move from appendix to action, and how the false Eucharist of modernity can expose the counterfeit communions of platforms, markets, and predatory systems. Read More