Insights

After we’ve sheltered ourselves from the elements and replenished our bodies’ demands for food and drink, out come the stories.  It has been ever thus – whether the story was about the bison hunt, the troubadour’s tale, or the outrageous thing you saw on Facebook...

What do you know about video games, and perhaps more importantly, what do you suspect? Did you know they are the most consumed form of entertainment in the world? The combined hours go far beyond those spent watching TV or movies, to say nothing of reading. Did you...

Artificial Intelligence has become the foundation for what is called the Fourth Industrial Revolution. No doubt, this will bring amazing benefits to humanity, just as the previous industrial revolutions did, and much has been written on this aspect, almost portraying...

This article is reprinted with permission from Theopolis. I take the thrust of Jeffrey Bilbro’s fascinating essay, “Forming Redemptive Communities Outside the Digital Public Sphere,” to be addressing the question, “How can we participate in the digital public sphere...

The ever-changing Google Earth image at https://witnesstoall.com/ is intriguing - perhaps even startling. Faster than every second, markers appear in blue (“gospel visits”), orange (“indicated decisions by those coming to faith in Jesus”), and green (“discipleship...

I read Dr. Eric Stoddard’s piece with abundant gratitude for the ways in which he brought a serious theological analysis to the morality of our increasingly surveilled world. I was particularly struck by two of his assertions regarding the way in which religious...

For people who believe in an omniscient God, the concept of privacy is complicated. On the one hand, what’s the point or protecting personal privacy?  If all of life is lived under the bright spotlight of God’s knowledge and awareness of our personal sin, for which we...

The Pew Research Center recently published a report of what experts think the “new normal” will be in 2025. The unsurprising “broad and nearly universal view is that people’s relationship with technology will deepen as larger segments of the population come to rely...

The following is adapted by our Founding Member Yaqub Chaudhary from his presentation in an AI&F-hosted workshop on integrating faith beliefs with ethics and business practices related to AI in the workplace at the virtual Faith@Work ERG Conference on February 11...

In this feature, Prof. Cahn and Mr. Glass summarize a longer article they co-authored that was published in 2017 in the DePaul Journal of Religion and Business Ethics, “Privacy Ethics in Biblical Literature.”  We are delighted to include this overview as well as a...

Artificial intelligence rightly generates both fear and hope, or to put it less emotionally, risk and opportunity.  I expect that most if not all of us at AI and Faith believe that AI is only a tool, not a new framework for life and understanding.  Like all tools, AI...

I am researching the ethics of artificial intelligence. This requires understanding the power and meaning of AI-based technologies in everyday life. AI algorithms have the power to create groups, select and prioritize the delivery of information and make a wide...

I created spf.io, an AI-powered translation tool, for two reasons. The first was my grandma. My family left a church over some serious divisions and were searching for a new one. It was especially challenging to find one my grandma could belong to because of her...

Hospitals are flooded with pandemic patients amidst a slow vaccine rollout, a motley crew of rioters invades the Capitol, the Russians deeply hack federal agencies and major corporations.  A hard start to 2021 – we just want to be safe! That’s true for AI&F, too,...

I check out quite a few books from public and university libraries.  Often I have to reserve and wait for popular titles or books on popular subjects.  I love it when, without a particular plan, books I have reserved show up at the same time and end up complementing...

The email from Colin Harrison, one of the three leads on the Pivot Projects, came on April 4, 2020.  Colin is a long-time friend and IBM Distinguished Engineer (retired, albeit in name only). The opening words read: “Dear Debbie:  I hope this finds you and Richard in...

Last month’s newsletter included five articles offering perspectives on the Netflix Documentary Social Dilemma. Here is an additional response from my perspective: I found the documentary informative, compelling, and effective. It set out to warn of the dangers of...

Editor's Note: While all of our other features are original to us, this post yesterday by Founding Member Paul Taylor of AllThingsNew.tech was so on point that we are producing it here in full with Paul’s permission. Is there really a secret Silicon Valley bunker...

Editor’s Note:  We are pleased to synopsize important symposia and conferences, especially by our Founding Members and others with expertise on the subject of the conference. This conference is notable for the high level former and current government, business, and...

As a platform Facebook has helped connect people across the world with updates, photos, videos, stories, groups, and more. As a business, it monetizes users’ attention and data about their online behavior and personal interests by selling it to third parties that want...