26 Feb 2026
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Mike Boland
AWE Talks: Programming Reality
Welcome back to AWE Talks, our series that revisits the best AWE conference sessions. With AWE Asia 2026 concluded, we have a fresh batch of session footage to sink our teeth into for weeks to come.
We continue our AWE Asia coverage with a look at the convergence of AI, XR and humanity. How will they come together and how can we ensure they do so in ways that are positive and productive? Alvin Graylin breaks it down.
See the summarized takeaways below, along with the full session video. Stay tuned for more video highlights each week and check out the full library of conference sessions on AWE’s YouTube Channel.
Speakers
Alvin Graylin
Key Takeaways & Analysis
– The combination of AI and XR will unlock unprecedented value for humanity.
– This involves heightened productivity and connectivity for and between humans.
– Though the positive potential is enormous, there's equal room for bad outcomes.
– For example, AI-powered XR can be so realistic as to influence human perception.
– That can be good in its realism for productive ends, but bad for nefarious ends.
– In between those endpoints are commercial ends, such as brand marketing.
– Intelligence systems delivered in realistic 3D fashion can sway human thinking.
– This moves from a world of humans programming machines to vice-versa.
– So how do we reap the positive rewards while sidestepping the negative ones.
– This will require human-first principles to govern AI advancement.
– For example, putting provenance, transparency and human agency first.
– Now is the inflection point where those structures should be enacted.
For more color and depth, including Graylin's full list of human-first AI development principles, see the full session below...
Want more XR insights and multimedia? ARtillery Intelligence offers an indexed and searchable library of XR intelligence known as ARtillery Pro. See more here.
– The combination of AI and XR will unlock unprecedented value for humanity.
– This involves heightened productivity and connectivity for and between humans.
– Though the positive potential is enormous, there's equal room for bad outcomes.
– For example, AI-powered XR can be so realistic as to influence human perception.
– That can be good in its realism for productive ends, but bad for nefarious ends.
– In between those endpoints are commercial ends, such as brand marketing.
– Intelligence systems delivered in realistic 3D fashion can sway human thinking.
– This moves from a world of humans programming machines to vice-versa.
– So how do we reap the positive rewards while sidestepping the negative ones.
– This will require human-first principles to govern AI advancement.
– For example, putting provenance, transparency and human agency first.
– Now is the inflection point where those structures should be enacted.
For more color and depth, including Graylin's full list of human-first AI development principles, see the full session below...
Want more XR insights and multimedia? ARtillery Intelligence offers an indexed and searchable library of XR intelligence known as ARtillery Pro. See more here.
