by Dan Forbush | Jun 23, 2022 | Insights
A claim for ‘sentience’ in a Google AI agent challenges us to ask: What is a person? The case of Blake Lemoine has the sound of a sci-fi film. In fact, it’s a drama that’s actually unfolding, signaling the start for real of the big debate...
by Dan Forbush | May 26, 2022 | Insights
A Conversation in Faith with Michael Paulus “Artificial intelligence has become one of the most powerful and pervasive technologies in our lives,” writes Michael Paulus in his just-published AI, Faith and the Future, a book he co-edited and co-authored...
by David Brenner | May 5, 2022 | Insights
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...
by Dan Forbush and Ron Roth | Apr 26, 2022 | Insights
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...
by Rev. Dr. Mark Ellingsen | Mar 30, 2022 | Insights
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...
by Dr. Shannon French | Mar 23, 2022 | Insights
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...
