Hosting conversations within our Expert Community that cross fertilize the knowledge of our experts, and providing panels and speakers for outside events are two key strategies for fulfilling AI&F’s mission to speak knowledgeably into the ethics debate around AI from diverse faith perspectives.
Presently our internal community conversations take the form of “Town Halls” and “Salons”. Town Halls are major “come all” events in which we gather to hear an expert in our community share on a topic of particularly current interest. Salons are more informal monthly gatherings in which typically several dozen of our experts gather to hear and discuss presentations on important issues that often tie to the monthly theme of our editorial features.
Our contributions to external conferences add voices with genuine and relevant expertise to the conference topics, drawing directly or indirectly on an integration of the expert’s ethics and substantive work with their faith beliefs.
A key part of AI&F’s channel into the broader secular AI ethics debate is to organize panels and speakers for outside conferences around the world, organize our own programs both outside and within our expert community, and highlight the contributions of our experts and partners in their own and third party podcasts, conferences, and other speaking venues.
We would like to invite you to AI and Faith’s December Salon on “AI Entanglement: Religion, Technology and Humanity” with Professor Beth Singler. Professor Singler is the Assistant Professor in Digital Religion(s) at the University of Zurich. She was previously Junior Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence at Homerton College, University of Cambridge, and a post-doctoral researcher of “Human Identity in an age of Nearly Human Machines.” Professor Singler’s work explores the social, ethical, philosophical and religious implications of advances in AI and robotics and has published widely on these subjects, including two books in 2024: “Religion and Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction” and “The Cambridge Companion to Religion and Artificial Intelligence.”
Professor Singler will join for a conversation with AI&F’s Pablo A. Ruz Salmones to share her perspective on several areas of intersection between AI and religion. These include the entanglement of religious and technological ideologies, the interest and association of AI with new religious movements, and the contribution of religious thinking to ethical discourses on AI. Professor Singler’s wide scholarly perspectives on these issues and more are certain to make for a fascinating discussion, so please mark your calendar for December 3rd to join us.