CULTIVATING EMOTIONAL AND SPIRITUAL INTELLIGENCE IN AN AI DRIVEN WORLD THROUGH YOGA: A REVIEW

Development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and digitalization have bought significant changes in all walks of life. This rapid revolution of artificial intelligence (AI) is shaping and reshaping our lives, work, and social interactions. AI has become embedded in our routines and its impact on ethics and spirituality gained noticeable significance. Ethical dimension has emerged as guiding principle, while spirituality concerns to our connection to higher realms and life's meaning. It brought benefits as well as ethical apprehensions like privacy, transparency, and accountability. Thus, it is necessary to examines and maintain mindfulness, ethics, and spirituality in the era of AI which is challenging our habits. According to Aristotle, ‘it is our choice of good or evil determines our character and not our opinion about good or bad,’ so it is necessary to know oneself to be an excellent being by disciplining the habit. Now question arises can AI help us to grow an individual with the quality of emotional and spiritual intelligence. Yoga being an integral part of life has a substantial and positive impact on emotional and spiritual intelligence. This research paper tries to explore AI's intersection and interrelation with ethics and spirituality, enquiring into its ethical and spiritual implications on individual. In the midst of rapid technological advancement, maintaining mindfulness and ethical conduct is crucial because we easily become pray to this quick fix technology. Spiritual growth is a conscious involvement in a conscious awareness of matter, life, body, mind, soul and spirit. Spiritual intelligence is more than individual mental ability. It helps to connect the personal to the transpersonal and the self to spirit; thus, the real aim of yoga is establishing union of finite self with infinite self.