AI and Faith is a cross-spectrum consortium of faith communities and academic institutions. Its mission is to bring the fundamental values of the world’s major religions into the emerging debate on the ethical development of Artificial Intelligence and related technologies.
Faith communities, faith-related institutions, and universities in technology-centric regions like Seattle are home to many professionals, scientists, theologians, ethicists, teachers of religion, and other thought leaders who are stakeholders in the evolution of AI. AI and Faith exists as a channel for faith-based perspectives to help shape the development of AI in ways that are deeply ethical and life-affirming.
AI and Faith is also a research organization focused on better understanding the relationship between sacred texts and the millennia of additional commentary on ethics in everyday life, government, and business. We seek to better align faith-based wisdom to inform the dialog on the development in ethical AI.
We focus on how to ensure the flourishing of humanity in a world of technology while protecting and promoting:
The worth of human life and dignity of every individual
Societal justice and meaningful community
Liberty and choice
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Book Review on AI, Faith, and the Future
AI, Faith, and the Future (forthcoming late May) is a collection of scholarly essays authored by members of a multidisciplinary research group on ethical and theological reflections about Artificial Intelligence at Seattle Pacific University. The intent of the...
AI&F Ethics Panels and Key Note Finalized for National Faith ERG Conference, May 23-25 Washington DC
The third National Faith ERG Conference at Catholic University in Washington DC will feature two panels organized by AI and Faith on how Faith Employee Resource Groups can help integrate faith beliefs into personal and corporate ethics positions around artificial...
AI and Faith Brings Diversity of Expertise to Partnership on AI
AI and Faith is excited to join the Partnership on AI (PAI), see PAI's full announcement below. Continuing our mission of bringing together diverse voices to ensure responsible development and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)...
AI&F Is Recruiting for Key Roles as Leaders and Connectors
To connect, encourage and equip AI and Faith’s rapidly growing expert community and “Network of Networks,” we are seeking volunteers to serve alongside our 18 Contributing Fellows and Officers, in a variety of roles including: Executive Director (interim / acting)...
Can I Tell You a Story About Stories?
For many years I attended a church in Seattle whose senior pastor was a legendary preacher and Biblical scholar. The church doubled from 1,500 pew sitters to a peak of over 3,000 under his preaching. Invariably, the high point of a sermon came when he would rest his...
NHNAI – a global Consortium of Catholic Universities launches a 3-year project to assess what it means to be human in context of AI and Neuroscience
NHNAI is a newly formed network of 11 Catholic universities in Europe, North America, Latin America, Africa and Asia formed to study for three years what it calls the “blind spot” in AI ethics: the question what it means to be human, who are we and who should we be at...
Interview with Brian Brock: AI and Transformation
Expanding Our "Social Imagination" Brian Brock is AI and Faith’s Advisor on ethics and disability. As the author of the pathbreaking Christian Ethics In a Technological Age and holder of an endowed chair in Moral and Practical Theology at the University of Aberdeen's...
AI&F’s Mission Evolves with Rapid Growth in Faith Perspectives on AI
Each month we are seeing more and more articles and books about the impact of Artificial Intelligence on our lives. Increasingly, faith perspectives are appearing. Two cases in point: the publication in January of Religious Transhumanism and Its Critics and this...
Review of The Life We’re Looking For
Andy Crouch’s new book The Life We’re Looking For made me cry…twice. In the spirit of full disclosure it’s not uncommon for a movie, play, or even a novel to choke me up but for a non-fiction treatise to bring me to tears is indeed a rare thing. Add to this the fact...
An Interview with Mark Graves on The Making of Moral AI
When we host a Conversation in Faith, we now ask experts to ease into our subject with a reading that's relevant to the discussion that will shortly follow. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God—not the...
AI and Emotions: Is AI Technology Still Lagging On Emotions? And Why It Matters
A new book by one of Stephen Hawking’s primary collaborators, Leonard Mlodinow, starkly raises the question posed in the title. In his book published this year, Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking(Pantheon), Mlodinow provides a well-written survey of research...
War and Technology: Should Data Consider Who Lives? Who dies?
When the ethical implications of the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML) are discussed in the military context, the conversation more often than not centers on lethal autonomous weapons systems or LAWS. While this is, of course, an interesting...
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“Ultimately, a global conversation about ethical principles for artificial intelligence will require an even bigger tent. There will need to be seats at the table not only for technologists, governments, NGOs, and educators, but for philosophers and representatives of the world’s many religions.” – Brad Smith, President, Microsoft from his book Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age