I'm working on a 'Human(e) AI Creed' and crowdsourcing some feedback in different communities and thought I'd share here too. It starts like this: 𝐖𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭, 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬. AI is something we use, not something we become. 𝐖𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐩. Nothing leaves our hands without passing through our own voice, our own judgment, our own care. We are accountable for what we put into the world, AI-assisted or not. 𝐖𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐚 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰. Some things are ours to do, not AI's: telling our own story, deepening our values, doing our inner work, and building real relationships. Human maturity becomes the competency of the future. 👉Here's the rest of the Creed. What's missing? Especially related to Inner Development? You can comment directly in the doc or put your thoughts in the comment section. Also, I thought this video is interesting about envisioning a positive AI World.

Excited to share that @Nadene Canning and I will be hosting "Inner Dimensions of Climate Action" as part of #LCAW2026. It is an online and interactive session exploring the IDGs through Nature 🦋. Friday, 26 June 2026 (2pm - 3pm BST | 3pm - 4pm CEST) All are welcome. Check out our community calendar or click here for more information.

Three weeks ago I wrote about data and statistics; the cold architecture of global inequality. Two weeks ago I wrote about imagination, whether we can understand a person we’ve never met, and what kind of imagination actually gets us closer to someone else’s reality. Last weekend the course “The World as a Village of 100 People” moved into its third chapter: Transformation. **Now that we understand and now that we’ve imagined, how do we act without reproducing the very dynamics we’re trying to dismantle?** It is, I’ve come to believe, the hardest question of the three. In our village of 100 people, one of the villagers stopped me in my tracks this past weekend. She is a young woman, aged between 20 and 24. She lives in the deepest poverty: one of 68 people who together control just 3% of the village’s wealth. She has no housing, no education, no water, no sanitation, no internet. She has electricity. That is all. When asked what she most wanted, she didn’t ask for a donation. She didn’t ask for a handout. She said: "Don’t just help me. Make sure no other person can ever land in my position". She was asking for systemic change. She was asking us to go to the root cause. Not treat the symptom, not make ourselves feel better with a gesture, but fix the conditions that made her situation possible in the first place. It is a completely different ask. And most of our systems (aid, development, philanthropy) are not designed to deliver it. This is not a new problem. It is an old one, repeating itself with remarkable consistency across generations of well-meaning effort. A striking example is PlayPumps International, a project that installed merry-go-round water pumps in rural African communities, designed so that children playing would simultaneously pump clean water. It was ingenious, it was photogenic, and it attracted significant funding. And it failed because nobody adequately consulted the communities who would use them. The pumps were harder to operate than hand pumps, broke down without accessible spare parts, and placed an unexpected burden on women and children to keep them running. A solution designed without asking the people it was designed for.

This looked interesting so I signed up. Will try to report back from some of the sessions but would love some help if anyone else decides to join this free 3-day event: https://generationregenerationsummit.com Day 1 is about inner regeneration 💛

Can anyone recommend NGOs or UN offices in NYC that show an interest working either the Inner Development Goals? I work with a Hindu Humanitarian organization called “ Bharat Sevashram Sangha” (see Bharat Sevashram Sangha | Service To Nation) which has an NGO status with ECOSOC. I will be part of an intergenerational delegation at the NYC HLPF from 7/8-7/15. Would greatly help my delegation (part of the Loretto Sisters) to be able to link IDG involvement with the SDGs. Thanks - Brian