Founding Member Bruce Baker will provide singular business and technology expertise and lead a workshop on AI ethical issues at this national program on technology and faith.

About the 2019 CPT Conference

The modern world presents Christians in general and pastors in particular with many profound and complex questions related to a biblical vision of and for technology. The rate of technological advancement in human culture has accelerated significantly in the last 200 years, and then accelerated again in the past 20. How should Christians think about smartphones? Artificial intelligence? Genetic technologies? Multi-site church? Virtual reality? Contraceptive technology? Social media?

The 2019 CPT Conference will seek to address these questions through the lenses of biblical wisdom, the historical Christian tradition, modern sociology, and ministry praxis. We invite you to join us. Read more here.

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New Founding Member Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad will also be giving a talk at the Washington State Museum on October 17, 2019 at 6:30 pm on his own work using AI to create a simulation of his deceased father that can interact with Ahmad’s daughters, who were born after their grandfather passed away. The talk will delve into the moral, ethical and legal implications of AI technologies. What does it mean for identity if we can simulate a person’s personality? Does it lighten the weight of death if we can interact with a simulation after a person has died? Can we ban people from creating digital simulations of ourselves?

New laws will be required to bring about the benefits of AI while minimizing associated risks. Crafting and applying such laws will require an understanding of a range of disciplines—across many areas of law, but also psychology, sociology, anthropology and other fields of study. This innovative CLE, presented by the King County Bar Association and organized by AI and Faith Founding Member David Brenner and co-chair David Heiner, senior strategy analyst for Microsoft, will bring together leaders in a wide range of disciplines who are thinking about how to harness the power of AI while avoiding harm. Faculty includes AI and Faith Founding Members Bruce Baker, Nathan Colaner, and Michael Paulus.

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This long-running international conference will be held in Seattle for the first time specifically to draw upon the region’s technological expertise. Both of AI and Faith workshop proposals were accepted: “Speaking Faith Values into Artificial Intelligence Ethics” and “AI Ethics: Insights from Industry Insiders”, featuring Ai and Faith Founding Members panels on the 45th Annual International Meeting of the Association for Moral Education, in Seattle Nov. 7-9 will feature two panels including AI and Faith Founding Members Turan Kayauglu, Daniel Rasmus, Rebekah Rice, Marc Sachnoff, Bruce Baker, Saskia de Vries, and Tripp Parker.

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Cost: Free / Light Appetizers & Drinks Available

Join us for Q&A Reception where Aaron Roth will discuss and answer questions about his book The Ethical Algorithm. Aaron Roth is the Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania, where he co-directs the Networked and Social Systems Engineering Program. Aaron has published widely in algorithms, machine learning, data privacy, and algorithmic game theory, and has consulted extensively about algorithmic privacy. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) awarded by President Obama in 2016. Together with Cynthia Dwork, he is also the author of The Algorithmic Foundations of Differential Privacy.