IASER Cofounder presents at "Rethinking the Challenge of AI" in London
Tech Sovereignty, Islam & the Individual — Ebrahim College, 7 July 2026
July 7, 2026
At Rethinking the Challenge of AI: Tech Sovereignty, Islam & the Individual (Ebrahim College, London, 7 July 2026), IASER’s cofounder made four points in ten minutes:
- AI is advancing faster than we are preparing for it — four years after large language models went from cute chatbots to a geopolitical force.
- Muslims need to respond both collectively as an Ummah and individually.
- The worlds of belief and technology have never been closer, with the question of what it means to be a good person now sitting at the heart of AI development.
- The psychological impact of AI remains poorly understood and represents a major research opportunity, pointing to work like CEFE-AI and JaleesBench.
He was joined by two co-speakers: Dr Boumediene Hamzi (University College London and The Alan Turing Institute), who leads a research group on Islam and artificial intelligence and authored Redefining Reality: An Islamic Metaphysical Critique of AI’s Data-Centric Worldview; and Dr Syed Mustafa Ali (The Open University), convenor of the Critical Information Studies research group, whose work explores how race, religion, politics, and ethics are entangled with computing and AI.