Internal Event – AI and Gaming: Games for Change

The power of new ways to tell stories about AI and the big challenges and opportunities it presents has been an important subject for AI and Faith almost from our inception. AI has been a great disruptor recently in this world as well, affecting how film, art, and video games are created and changing the employment and power picture in dramatic ways. Our Advisor Chris Skaggs has been a leading voice for us in understanding all that is happening in the video game world, including around moral education for children that his own game design company, Soma Games, offers. Recently, two experts in the emerging “games for change” world, Amy and Ryan Green, joined us as Contributing Fellows. Their courageous pioneering game That Dragon Cancer won multiple awards and international publicity, though at great personal cost. Chris will interview Ryan and Amy about how they became involved in this world, why they made this video game, and where they see the future of such media as a way to both entertain, educate, and encourage beneficial change, including in our own key area of bringing faith values to the design of AI based products.