08/06/2026
If AI Can Fake Scripture and Cameras Can Consume Sewa, What Remains Human?-
UNITED SIKHS (UK) delivered a talk at the annual Dialogues for Harmony at Azim Premji University in Bengaluru, addressing a distinguished gathering of scholars, academics, theologians, researchers, and public intellectuals from a range of faith traditions.
Some of the questions placed before the gathering:
• What happens when AI generates sacred verses that do not exist, yet presents them with complete confidence?
• What becomes of truth when certainty is available instantly and doubt is treated as a weakness?
• The Gurus identified haumai (ego) as a fundamental obstacle to human flourishing. Have our technologies simply given this ancient human problem a larger microphone?
• We have created a culture where every act of Sewa seems to require a camera. When does recording it begin to consume it?
• If a hungry child must wait while a photograph is staged, where does Sewa end and self-promotion begin?
• As AI absorbs increasing amounts of human thought, what becomes of education, discernment, and wisdom?
• What kind of future awaits a generation taught to seek answers everywhere except within themselves?
•If a robot can fabricate scripture, and a camera can hollow out Sewa, are we witnessing the gradual abandonment of the very qualities that distinguish human beings from the tools they create?
Apologies for the shaky footage. The recording is amateur, but the questions deserve serious consideration.
