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AI and Ethics: Reconsidering the Rome Call for AI Ethics
The Rome Call for AI Ethics, a Vatican-led effort to establish a set of ethical principles for AI, continues to be touted as an example of technology and faith working together to put some collective guard rails around the burgeoning use of AI. While the Rome Call for...
Part 2 – Late Antiquity Christian Insights for Artificial Intelligence: An anthropological approach to discerning AI’s impact on society
In Part 1 of this essay, I explained how writing of the early Church Fathers (“patristics”) from the 4th Century CE are relevant to some of today’s important questioning about AI and society, and more specifically, AI and faith. This paper focuses on the question of...
Celebrating a Big Step Forward for AI&F in 2021!
As 2021 draws to a close, our community at AI&F has much to celebrate and a great base to build on in the year ahead. Forming AI&F 3.0 – Introducing Eight New Fellows and Advisors Beginning with our Founding Member strategy calls a year ago, 2021 has...
Interviewing Distinguished UW Law Professors Anita Ramasastry and Ryan Calo about Human Rights and Tech Ethics
Anita Ramasastry (AR below) is the Henry M. Jackson Professor of Law at the University of Washington School of Law, and an expert and leading academic in the fields of anti-corruption and business and human rights. At the University of Washington, she directs the...
White House Artificial Intelligence Efforts Reflect Growing Global Interest
As part of this issue’s focus on a human rights approach to controlling AI-based technologies, we asked attorneys in the Seattle and Washington, DC offices of Davis Wright Tremaine (DWT) to describe the significance of a new call from President Biden’s technology...
AI&F New “Ecosystem” Up and Running
Now that we’ve reorganized into our new structure around the Institute for Faith Perspectives on AI, our constituent teams are starting to meet and move ahead. We want Research Fellows, Contributing Fellows, Advisors and Partners to coalesce dynamically around...
Greffenstette Center Conference on Policies, Theologies, and Ethics of Biometric Technology
On November 4, 2021, the Duquesne University Grefenstette Center for Ethics in Science, Technology, and Law hosted an in-person and livestreamed symposium on the present and future ethics of biometric technology. The symposium featured four panels focusing on...
Support AI&F’s Channel for Expert Faith Engagement with AI Ethics with a Year-End Gift
Please consider an end of the year fully-tax-deductible gift to AI&F to maintain and expand our “channel” into the ethics debate around AI in 2021. AI and Faith is a Washington-incorporated tax-exempt nonprofit. Your support will ensure our continuing active...
Conference Summary: AI and The End of the Anthropocene
On November 17, 2021, the Iliff School of Theology's Artificial Intelligence Institute hosted a virtual conversation titled “AI, Tech, and the End of the Anthropocene.” The conversation largely focused on confronting the impact of industrial technologies on the...
A brief review of COSM 2021: Paradoxes of the new world of technology
While I have no previous COSM to compare this COSM to, I find myself agreeing with Panic author Richard Vigilante, who moderated the final panel of COSM 2021, that this was the best COSM yet. To qualify his assertion, Mr. Vigilante explained that a good conference...
AI&F 3.0 Adds Two Dozen More Fellows, Advisors and Partners
In our September Newsletter, we announced nearly 50 new Fellows and Advisors as part of our our reset of AI and Faith community from a single level of multidisciplinary experts to five new roles for engaging faith perspectives on AI ethics. Since then we have...
The Interfaith Business Network is about Business, Faith, and Social Change
The Interfaith Business Network is a new Partner of AI and Faith, working to develop a network of business school students and alumni around questions of diversity, inclusion and equity, business ethics, and faith on a pluralist basis. Angie Luo and Breanne White are...
An Interview with Wired’s Spiritual Advisor Meghan O’Gieblyn on Technology, Transhumanism, and the Afterlife
Meghan O’Gieblyn writes essays, features, and criticism for Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker, Bookforum, n+1, The Point, The Believer, The Guardian, The New York Times, Paris Review Daily, and other publications. She is the recipient of three Pushcart Prizes. One...
Review of The Upswing – Can We Bridge Again?
Though Robert Putnam has served since 1979 as dean and then distinguished professor of political science at the Kennedy School at Harvard, most Americans—including me—only became aware of his keen analytical descriptions of U.S society in 2000, when he published...
How Do We Hold These Things Together?
The books arrived in my reading stack at the same time: AI 2041: 10 Visions for our Future and The Perfect Police State. So which would I read first? I chose The Perfect Police State. That order turned out to matter. Investigative journalist Geoffrey Cain’s book...
Do Digital Tools Threaten Learning, Spirituality, and Well-Being?
A 2010 book by well-known social commentator Nicholas Carr, titled The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, raises an ongoing, increasingly important question for computer science and the use of digital tools. In essence, Carr argues that extensive use...
Talking with Robert Marks, Director of the Walter Bradley Center for Natural & Artificial Intelligence
Robert J. Marks II, Ph.D., is Distinguished Professor of Engineering in the Department of Engineering & Computer Science at Baylor University. He is the Director and a Senior Fellow of the Walter Bradley Center for Natural & Artificial Intelligence. Marks is...
Video Games as a Controlled Substance
“Games are so addictive!” “You’re killing our children!” It’s a common objection I hear from concerned parents when they learn of my chosen mission field: video games. I remember a woman approaching me at a faith-forward business conference. We chatted for 10 minutes...
On Christian Faith and Work with David Kim, CEO of Goldenwood
David Kim is the CEO and co-founder of Goldenwood. Over the past several decades, Rev. Dr. David Kim has trained, consulted, and counseled hundreds of leaders and organizations in developing a robust, meaningful integration of faith and work. David’s past experiences...
AI&F 3.0 First Wave of almost 50 new Specialized Leaders
Over the past six months, we’ve been planning our reset of the AI and Faith community from a single level of multidisciplinary experts to five new roles for engaging faith perspectives on AI ethics. Our first round of recruiting focused on Research Fellows and a...