Name: Artificial Intelligence and Human Progress: How We Learn, Create, and Build Together
Start: 2026-08-08T09:00:00-0400
End: 2026-08-08T10:15:00-0400

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Artificial Intelligence and Human Progress: How We Learn, Create, and Build Together

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Saturday August 8, 2026 9:00am - 10:15am EDT

212

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Artificial intelligence is transforming how we learn, create, and collaborate, raising profound questions about human identity, truth, and our collective future. This panel explores how AI can be harnessed as a force for human progress, drawing on Bahá’í teachings to integrate scientific and spiritual principles in an era of rapid change. It considers how the tools we build, and how we use them, shape society, emphasizing AI’s potential to advance collective progress when aligned with values such as justice, unity, and human dignity. Panelists will examine how AI is reshaping the pursuit of knowledge and creative expression, reimagining creativity as a collaboration between human intention and machine capability, while also addressing the ethical responsibilities of design. The session invites participants to reflect on how AI can support more meaningful learning, creative expression, and shared advancement.

Speakers

Duane Varan

Dr. Varan is CEO/Founder of MediaPET.ai, an AI video platform, and MediaScience, a leading provider of audience research counting almost every US TV network as a client. He ranks among the top 10 researchers in the advertising discipline, was recipient of the Australian Prime Minister's... Read More →

Sohail Bagheri

Sohail Bagheri is a Product Designer at Cisco building enterprise AI products in Security. He holds a Master's in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University and is interested in the ethics of AI design and the responsibility designers have in building prosocial AI... Read More →

Berkeley Churchill

Berkeley is a computer scientist with a wide range of interests, including cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.

Saturday August 8, 2026 9:00am - 10:15am EDT
212

Technology, Breakout

50th ABS Annual Conference

Duane Varan

Sohail Bagheri

Berkeley Churchill

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50th ABS Annual Conference

Duane Varan

Sohail Bagheri

Berkeley Churchill

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