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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...
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 the writing of the early Church Fathers (“patristics”) from the 4th Century CE is relevant to some of today’s important questioning about AI and society, and more specifically, AI and faith. This paper focuses on the question...
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...