More than a century ago, the Philippines national hero Dr. Jose Rizal daydreamed of an Asian Renaissance cultivated by imagination, the arts, human dignity and ingenuity, justice, virtual, compassion, science and ethics. Rizal, in most of his writings, imagined a multi-cultural futures “where the genius could burst forth everywhere” like art and air and cosmopolitan as space.

How do you grow a good AI mindset? How might you embed and evolve a truthful, inclusive, plural AI futures? What if AI can be turbocharged with cognition, imagination, and creativity? How might that look like? What are the alternative AI futures in Asia? CEF Futures Learning Advisor Peachie Valera presents at the USC Futures Collective.

The Hiraya Foresight booth also featured, front and center, the milestones, current achievements, and ongoing futures literacy work by the DAP-GSPDM Futures Studies Platform, Northwestern University's PhilForesight, and the Philippine Futures Thinking Society. The Hiraya Foresight developed by the collaborators' video outlined and showcased how futures literacy that began in the Philippines in 2012 and the impacts it had at