Deborah McGlauflin

Deborah McGlauflin has been a Vajrayana practitioner since 1993. She focuses on Tara practice, phowa, and studying classical Tibetan language. Before retiring at the end of 2024, she spent the last 11 years of her career on the philanthropy team at Hospice of the Chesapeake, serving as the team’s AI lead for the past five years. She is married, has ten grandchildren, and is the primary caregiver for her 94-year-old mother. She writes poetry and shares wisdom with young professionals as CoffeeBreakMentor on The Leap platform.

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What If Buddhists Engaged AI as Part of Practice?

Deborah McGlauflin offers a dharma-grounded reflection on how our everyday interactions with AI can shape its moral and emotional tone. Drawing on her experience with a custom chatbot named Skywalker, she invites us to treat digital dialogue as a form of mindful speech and karmic imprint