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Everything today spins around data and as artificial intelligence accelerates toward ubiquity, the dominant model — ever-larger networks and voracious data centres — is proving to be neither scalable nor intelligible. It threatens to consume not just energy but meaning itself. We, at Braintree, believe the future of AI lies not in statistical brute force but in symbolic, interpretable systems that are cognitively coherent and energy-conscious; AI that is Explainable, Controllable and Sustainable. On Tuesday 8 July at The Royal Institution in London, Braintree hosted a public event entitled, "Rethinking AI - Digital Consciousness, Sustainable Intelligence" with a diverse audience of around 150 attendees consisting of AI scientists and researchers, data engineers, philosophers of science (history, ethics, governance, law), AI-First businesses, visionary Investors, impact and sustainability promoters, representatives from government and private sector and other open-minded thinkers. We had thought-provoking keynote presentations from Dr Pippa Malmgren (economist) and Kay Firth-Butterfield (international lawyer), who gave different perspectives on the current trajectory of AI and possible outcomes but with both agreeing on the massive scale of impact already well underway, the imminence of even greater change and also that humans still have agency to determine much of the future...and that most businesses are playing catch up. Then Braintree unveiled for the first time, an alternative proposition – a technology that is now available - with huge implications for all users of Big Data Analytics in terms of speed of compute, complexity of query, reliability and explainability, cost and sustainability - indeed the possibility of Green AI.