"If AI systems are designed in a way that incentivize only certain economic values such as profit maximization and have no consideration for human values such as empathy, it will be no surprise to see that the outcomes of such AI systems will lack a human connection."

"Technology in general, and AI in particular, is not value-neutral. The design decisions that are taken while developing AI impart certain values to AI whether we want them to or not. The key is to bridge the gap between high-level principles and design of AI systems."

"You need to be able to trace every AI design decision right from pre-design phase all the way to deployment of the system. Along with that, we also have to track the relevant moral reasons for the variables along this design history."

"Power is never naked. Rather, it is eloquent."

"Power is more 'spacious' than violence. And violence becomes power if it 'gives itself more time.' Looked at from this perspective, power rests on an excess of space and time."

"An absolute power would be one that never becomes apparent, never pointed to itself, one that rather blended completely into what goes without saying. Power shines in its own absence."

"A truly powerful holder of power does not simply elicit agreement, but enthusiasm and excitement."

"Often what is absent has more power than what is present."

"The task of power is to transform the always possible 'no' into a 'yes.'"

"Violence and freedom are the two endpoints on the scale of power."

"Architecture is a way for power to achieve eloquence through form."

"When power is separated from any communicative context, it becomes naked violence."

"Power turns pure being into a having."

"Violence may capture space, but it does not create space."

"Rather, power is most powerful, most stable, where it creates a feeling of freedom and where it does not need to resort to violence."

"Emptiness is not a denial of the proper but an affirmation of it."

"When we resist impermanence, the self intensifies."

"Emptiness simply prevents what is individual from insisting on itself."

"Emptiness empties the one seeing into what is seen."

"The emptiness of Zen Buddhism... creates a neighborly nearness between things."

"The huge laugh is a most extreme expression of freedom."

"Enlightenment is an awakening to the everyday."

"To die is to wander."

"If life can no longer be narrated, wisdom deteriorates, and its place is taken by problem-solving."

"...Zen Buddhism, this religion of immanence."

"Haikus allow the whole world to appear within things."

"God is nothingness: He is 'beyond all speech.'"

"The pornographic body lacks any symbolism. The ritualized body, by contrast, is a splendid stage, with secrets and deities written into it."

"What is obscene about pornography is not an excess of sex, but the fact that it contains no sex at all."

"The freedom of the 'everyday mind' consists rather in not kneeling down in awe. Its mental attitude is better expressed as "sitting unmoveable like an object."

"...I pray to God to make me free of God."

"Stories on digital platforms like Facebook or Instagram are not genuine stories. They have no narrative duration. Rather, they are just sequences of momentary impressions that do not tell us anything."

"The smartphone seems to be a playground, but it is a digital panopticon."

"Without narration, life is purely additive."

"At the deepest level, the desire for complete union with God exhibits a narcissistic structure."

"Power tends to reduce openness... Power tries to solidify and stabilize its position by eradicating spaces open to play, or incalculable spaces."

"Zen Buddhism is inspired by a basic trust in the Here, a basic trust in the world."

"In contrast to festivals, events do not create community."

"Rituals are processes of embodiment and bodily performances. In them, the valid order and values of a community are physically experienced and solidified."

"Capitalism lacks narrativity."

"Today, tattoos lack symbolic power. All they do is point toward the uniqueness of the bearer. The body is neither a ritual stage nor a surface of projection; rather, it is an advertising space."

"The 'intense life' advertised by the neoliberal regime is in truth simply a life of intense consumption."

"Sabbath rest does not follow creation; it brings creation to completion."

"Sovereignty, the freedom unto death, is threatening to a society that is organized around work and production."

"We can define rituals as symbolic techniques of making oneself at home in the world. They transforming being at home to being in the world. They turn the world into a reliable place. They are to time what a home is to space. They render time habitable."

"Power is not opposed to freedom. It is precisely freedom that distinguishes power from violence or coercion."

"Ritual practices ensure that we treat not only other people but also things in beautiful ways, that there is an affinity between us and other people as well as things."

"Those who devote themselves to rituals must ignore themselves. Rituals produce a distance from the self, a self-transcendence."

"Rituals are also symbolic practices... in the sense that they bring people together to create an alliance, a wholeness, a community.""

"Every religious practice is an exercise in attention. A temple is the highest degree of attention."