Contributors
A Bigger Tent: ‘What’s Faith Got to do with It?’
What does artificial intelligence have to with religious faith? Why might those with religious faith have a special interest in AI? I think the most helpful place to begin the explanation is by addressing the common confusion that AI and faith concerns can be reduced...
The Various Lenses of the Faith World Add Value
I had perfect vision until I turned 50 and then my visual perception began to blur. Since getting my first pair of glasses a dozen years ago, I’ve found I actually enjoy peering through the optical machine while the assistant clicks through various lenses to update...
COVID-19, AI Ethics, and Vocation
At the beginning of April, the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence held a virtual conference on COVID-19 and AI. The conference focused on how artificial intelligence is being used to research, manage, and react to this pandemic. It also...
The Rise of Faith ERGs and Their Influence on AI
The Religious Freedom & Business Foundation (RFBF) and the Tim and Steph Busch School of Business at the Catholic University of America (CUA) hosted the first-ever national conference for faith-oriented Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) on February 13-14, 2020, in...
What Wendell Berry and COVID-19 Tell Us about AI
Over the last few months, BP (Before Pandemic), I’ve been asking myself “how do we Wendell Berry AI?” To put Wendell Berry’s name next to AI would seem as much an oxymoron as “AI and Faith” does to many, because Berry is famously a minimalist when it comes to...
Scenario Planning, AI and Covid-19
In Scenario Planning, AI and Covid-19 will challenge assumptions about what factors shape our future. Even for those who developed scenarios in which the Covid-19 outbreak occurred, that it has occurred means those scenarios collapse into a set of certainties. The...