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AI&F’s Evolving Leadership
AI and Faith is approaching the fifth year anniversary of its launch and four years as a corporation. Three years ago this month we started publishing our monthly digital Newsletter. Just in the past year, we’ve got a lot to celebrate, including: global publicity...
AI Ethics and Society Conference This Week at Oxford – let us know if you’re involved
One of AI&F’s key ways to “identify, connect, encourage and equip” faith perspectives on AI is participation in major ethics conferences around AI, both those that overtly recognize contributions of faith values to AI ethics and those that do not. The Fifth...
An Interview with Dr. Philip Butler
Dr. Philip Butler is Assistant Professor of Theology and Black Posthuman Artificial Intelligence Systems at Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado. Professor Butler is also a panelist for the program “AI and Religion in 2041” organized by AI&F for the AI...
Brain Surveillance Pros and Cons
As EEG and fMRI "smartcaps" make their way into general use, Duke philosopher and law professor Nita Farahany says it's time to engage in a "battle for our brains." The 70,000 thoughts we have daily are becoming more and more transparent. It's time to fight for our...
AI&F Expert Community passes the Century Mark
Once again this month, AI and Faith welcomes a diverse array of new experts who promise to be great additions to our mission to “identify, connect, encourage and equip” sophisticated faith perspectives on AI ethics. Here are short biographies of our new experts...
AI&F Essential “Connecting/Equipping” Teams Coalescing Strongly
The leadership recruiting drive we announced back in May is paying rich dividends as our essential Contributing Fellow and Member Teams achieve critical mass under newly identified leaders. New opportunities are becoming apparent for our Research Fellows, especially...
Reviewing Get Your Life Back & Resilient
It was November of 2019 and I was in Colorado Springs for an event John Eldredge called “Homecoming”. He had a new book on the way and Homecoming was an early-access event. I’ve been following John Eldredge for many years now. Wild at Heart quite literally and...
AI and Faith Focus on Tech Ethicists in the UK
Our AI&F Advisor Scott Hawley (physics, technology and ethics) is a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Physics at Belmont University in Nashville, where he teaches physics to audio engineering students. And of course, being in Nashville he plays music on...
Digitalisation from an Islamic Perspective
A key purpose of AI&F is to identify AI ethics and values issues of particular importance to the faith traditions of members in our AI&F expert community. We asked our Advisor Yaqub Chaudhary (AI, cognitive science and ethics) to provide an overview of such...
AI&F Planning AI Ethics and Faith Pluralist Ethics Program in New Delhi Sept 2023
Following our very successful participation in the National Faith ERG Conference in Washington DC in May, we are delighted to accept the invitation of the Religious Freedom and Business Foundation (RFBF) to participate with them in their Dare to Overcome international...
AI and Faith Welcomes Seven New Experts to our Community!
We’re excited this month to welcome a tremendous group of new experts to our community. They are filling key roles for us in areas such as corporate ethics and Faith ERGs, law, psychiatry and neuroscience, and finance. They also help continue to diversify our...
AI and the Breath of God
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 we've known all along was...
AI and Faith Programs Team Targets 10 New Potential Conferences for 2023
Contributing Fellows and Members are the backbone of AI&F’s mission to “identify, connect, encourage and equip” experts with faith perspectives on AI ethics. They serve and work through four Teams: Editorial, Programs, Communications and Networking. Each Team...
Interview with Milind Makwana, Leader in PayPal’s Believe ERG
We’re delighted to welcome Milind Makwana as a new AI and Faith Advisor for AI product development and Faith ERGs. Milind is joining us as a result of his participation in the recent National Faith ERG Conference in Washington, DC. Milind is a senior technical...
Has Google’s LaMDA Created a Sentient AI? Google Responsible AI Employee says Yes and cries Religious Discrimination – Google says No
Suddenly attracting global attention this week is a question fundamental to the work of AI and Faith: “can an AI-powered chatbot have an inner life, a ‘soul’, that deserves moral and legal protection (along with its professed discoverer)?” Despite the confident...
A Review of Elyakim Kislev’s Relationships 5.0: How AI, VR, and Robots Will Reshape Our Emotional Lives
The eminent 20th century German Jewish philosopher, Martin Buber, was perhaps best known for his short treatise, I-Thou. It amplified the study of dialogic relationships, designating more transactional, functional, objectified, and mundane bonds as I-It, and deeper,...
Congrats to AI&F Research Fellow Dr. Gretchen Huizinga on “Righteous AI”
Congratulations to AI&F Research Fellow and Board Member Gretchen Huizinga on the successful defense of her PhD thesis on Thursday, June 2, at the University of Washington. Her dissertation was titled Righteous AI: The Christian voice in the Ethical AI...
Book Review of “The Shame Machine”
In her new book, “The Shame Machine,” the author and mathematician Cathy O'Neil (also the author of the wonderful “Weapons of Math Destruction”) discusses the “shame industry,” its creators and proponents, and what can be done about it. O'Neil argues that shame, once...
National Faith ERG Conference Produces Great New Conversations and Connections
300 leaders of Faith Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) and related organizations attended the third National Faith ERG Conference at Catholic University in Washington DC on May 23-25. AI and Faith had a major presence with six members of our expert community...
The Apocalyptic Imagination: AI in Human Flourishing
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 with colleagues...