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In the last decade, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative global force. Utilizing artificial neural networks, deep learning frameworks now facilitate text translation across numerous languages, real-time navigation, and the recognition of medical images, among other applications. Despite the vast potential for innovation and advancements that AI offers, there are significant risks and hazards that remain largely unexplored and misunderstood. While AI can enhance healthcare, particularly during pandemics, provide automated mobility, and contribute to environmental protection and security, it also poses threats to individuals and societies. These include the perpetuation of biases, the erosion of political discourse, and the development of autonomous weapons. This highlights an urgent need for responsible governance of AI systems. The Handbook aims to outline key features of Responsible AI and strategies for their implementation at regional, national, and international levels. It seeks to tackle pressing philosophical, ethical, legal, and societal challenges associated with AI, establishing a foundation for understanding and addressing the complexities of this rapidly evolving field.

The Philokalia, a collection of spiritual texts by fathers of the Eastern Church spanning the fourth to the fifteenth centuries, was first published in Venice in 1782. Significant in bringing about a renaissance of Orthodox spirituality since then, it shows deep psychological as well as spiritual awareness. The Philokalia and the Inner Life critically examines the nature of mental and spiritual well-being as understood in the Philokalia. It identifies the passions as 'hostile pleasures', with a seductive and addictive quality, which are detrimental to human well-being, and explores the remedies for the passions that the Philokalia prescribes. Like the Philokalia, contemporary psychotherapies seek to interpret human thoughts and restore well-being, although the 'talking cure' of secular psychotherapy contrasts significantly with the 'praying cure' of the Philokalia.This book is for all who are interested in spirituality, theology and the life of prayer, as well as students of the Philokalia. It is also for clinicians, counselors and psychotherapists, especially those who wish to explore the relationship between psychological and spiritual well-being.