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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...
AI and Faith Supports Faith ERGs – National Faith ERG Conference, May 23-25, Washington DC
Faith Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) are rapidly growing in number as major American corporations realize that their Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs are leaving out a major stakeholder group among their employees – people for whom religious beliefs are...
‘Reverse Mimesis’: Exploring the Interplay Between AI and Human
Some say AI will create many more jobs than it destroys. For a well-reasoned argument, see this World Economic Forum piece posted in 2020 by Mohamed Kande and Murat Sonmez. Look for a big spike in jobs with titles like "data analysts and scientists," "AI and...
Urban Planner Anthony Townsend Interview: The implication of Autonomous Vehicles for Thriving Communities
Anthony Townsend Interview: the implications of autonomous vehicles for thriving communities Dr. Anthony Townsend is President and Founder of Star City Group, where he works around the world with industry, government and philanthropy on urban tech foresight, policy,...
An Interview with Andrew DeBerry: Teaching AI to Do Good
After connecting through AI & Faith, Andrew DeBerry and I hit it off immediately. We have a lot in common – our respective backgrounds in the defense community, our shared Christian faith, our current work in the social media world, and our interest in mitigating...
AI&F 2022 off to a great start with Andy Crouch, Trish Shaw
Five significant events launched 2022 for AI and Faith, beginning with two new Advisors joining us, each with a broad and deep reach. Andy Crouch (Advisor for theology, technology, and culture) is one of the best-known authors and speakers in Christian circles on...
Investing from the doctrine of the Gospel
Guillaume d’Alançon is the Director of Communications for Aliter Invest, an investment fund founded by Archduke Imri of Austria to apply Catholic social justice principles in their investment strategies. Both Archduke Imri and Mr. d’Alançon were speakers at the 5th...
A Series of Conversations Focused on Transhumanism
Two Unitarian Universalist members of AI and Faith's Communications Team have launched a web platform to help UU congregations address the wide range of issues raised by technologies that increasingly link AI and the brain. Dan Forbush, a member of the UU Congregation...
BOLO Everyone! What AI Issues should we look out for in 2022?
We asked three AI&F Research Fellows and an Advisor what is especially on their radar as key risk issues or opportunities in AI for 2022. Here are their answers, answered in diverse ways we really enjoy and appreciate! Jason Thacker Jason is an Advisor of...
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...