AI Is Getting Smarter. Are We Getting Wiser?
Artificial intelligence expands capability. The harder question is how responsibility, accountability, and human dignity should govern that power.
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Progress has changed what humanity can do. But what should progress be for?
Dr. Abdillah Mohamed writes at the intersection of technology, ethics, Islamic thought, and human flourishing—asking how knowledge, prosperity, and power can remain connected to purpose and responsibility.
“Progress toward what?”
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The central conversation
Capability is not the same as direction.
Science, medicine, digital technology, and economic development have expanded human possibility in extraordinary ways. Yet greater capability does not automatically answer questions of meaning, belonging, justice, responsibility, or human purpose.
This website is a home for writing and conversation around those questions—bringing technological experience into dialogue with ethics, Islamic thought, and contemporary research.
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Purpose
Meaning, spiritual orientation, attention, and the inner life.
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Belonging
Community, family, loneliness, trust, and mutual responsibility.
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Justice
Economic life, wealth, work, finance, dignity, and fairness.
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Responsibility
AI, cybersecurity, privacy, stewardship, and the environment.
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When Progress Is Not Enough
Rediscovering Meaning, Ethics, and Human Flourishing in a Disrupted World
Can technological and material progress sustain humanity without meaning, ethics, and purpose?
From mental well-being and loneliness to artificial intelligence, economic inequality, and environmental responsibility, the book explores what happens when human capability grows faster than our moral conversation about what that capability is for.
Drawing on Qur’anic principles, Prophetic teachings, Islamic ethical thought, and contemporary research, it invites Muslim and non-Muslim readers into a shared inquiry about the conditions of genuine human flourishing.
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Ideas & writing
Questions worth exploring
Technology and Human Flourishing
What should technological progress ultimately serve—and how should we evaluate innovation beyond efficiency and convenience?
Islamic Thought in a Disrupted World
Exploring how enduring principles such as amanah, ‘adl, rahmah, and mizan can inform contemporary ethical questions.
“We are becoming increasingly capable of answering ‘What can we do?’—but are we equally prepared to answer ‘What should we do, and why?’”