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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

While I have no previous COSM to compare this COSM to, I find myself agreeing with Panic author Richard Vigilante, who moderated the final panel of COSM 2021, that this was the best COSM yet. To qualify his assertion, Mr. Vigilante explained that a good conference...

The Interfaith Business Network is a new Partner of AI and Faith, working to develop a network of business school students and alumni around questions of diversity, inclusion and equity, business ethics, and faith on a pluralist basis.  Angie Luo and Breanne White are...

The books arrived in my reading stack at the same time:  AI 2041: 10 Visions for our Future and The Perfect Police State.  So which would I read first?  I chose The Perfect Police State.  That order turned out to matter. Investigative journalist Geoffrey Cain’s book...

A 2010 book by well-known social commentator Nicholas Carr, titled The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, raises an ongoing, increasingly important question for computer science and the use of digital tools.  In essence, Carr argues that extensive use...

“Games are so addictive!” “You’re killing our children!” It’s a common objection I hear from concerned parents when they learn of my chosen mission field: video games. I remember a woman approaching me at a faith-forward business conference. We chatted for 10 minutes...

According to the World Economic Forum, by next year, around 50% of human jobs across industries will be subject to automation. Cloud computing, 3D printing and other leading-edge technologies share some responsibility for this, but the lion’s share is tied to AI,...

The Washington Workforce Board published its Future of Work report in December 2019, just as COVID-19 was spreading into the United States.  I served as Co-Manager of the Future of Work Project.  Little did we know that the Pandemic would throw the future of work...

The contrast in the title above between the 4th century of the Roman Empire and the AI debates in our 21st century is highlighted on purpose. This article addresses atemporal and universal topics, with which humans are engaged throughout history in all cultures, such...

This article is a thought piece about how artificial intelligence technology (and tech in general) can help Christians fulfill Jesus’ great commission to make disciples from all backgrounds of peoples. AI technologies that can help us be better people have been...

In the coffee rooms of tech research labs our AI engineers are talking daily about the ethical challenges that future developments might bring. Might we steal what is valuable from predecessor reflections in bioethics and genethics? Fields such as bioethics,...

In this article, I speculate that the nascent field of AI ethics might have a thing or two to learn from its older sibling, bioethics, and that field’s successes in establishing ethical reflection into the culture and practices of the medical profession. In four...

Over the last few years, it’s become increasingly common to encounter the claim that we live in a post-truth society. The claim implies not only that lies and falsehoods are widely believed, but that we have, as a society, grown indifferent to the truth. While...

We prize knowledge but everybody lies.  So says Psalm 12:2 in the Hebrew Bible.  Current neuroscience research and data analytics agree. Paradoxically, we live today with more knowledge and more falsehoods more closely intertwined than ever before.  Thanks to...

Most people have never heard of synthetic media and those who have mostly know very little about it. When asked, ‘have you interacted with synthetic media?’ most people will say ‘no’ or ‘I don’t think so’. If this is true, then why should everyday people care about...

It is now a commonplace to say that our societies face a crisis of fact and truth, but it does not lessen the gravity of the problem.  Phrases like ‘fake news’ and ‘alternative facts’ are now a part of our vocabulary.  The insurrection of January 6 is now falsely...