Internal Event – Ethics of Life and Mind in the Era of AI

As artificial intelligence reshapes medicine, genetic engineering, biology, and to some, the very definition of life, urgent ethical questions emerge. But who gets to ask those questions, under which light, and who gets to answer them? Join us in this AI and Faith Salon where we will go beyond a single worldview to explore how diverse faith traditions approach the moral challenges of AI and bioethics.

From AI healthcare to boundaries of genetic engineering, how do our world’s greatest wisdom traditions guide us throughout these new frontiers?

Pablo Ruz Salmones will be interviewing Mohammed Ghaly, Cory Labrecque and Tracy Trothen at this special event.

Meet the speakers:

Dr. Mohammed Ghaly is a Professor of Islam and Biomedical Ethics at the Research Center for Islamic Legislation & Ethics (CILE), holding degrees in Islamic Studies from Al-Azhar University and Leiden University, where he earned his PhD. His primary expertise lies at the intersection of Islamic ethics and biomedical sciences, a field in which he is highly published with over 30 peer-reviewed articles and leadership roles as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Islamic Ethics and as Lead Principal Investigator on several funded research projects. Dr. Ghaly’s significant contributions to the field include his book, Islam and Disability: Perspectives in Theology and Jurisprudence  (2010), and the edited volumes, Islamic Perspectives on the Principles of Biomedical Ethics (2016) and Islamic Ethics and the Genome Question (2019), and he has lectured on his specialization at prestigious institutions around the globe, including Oxford University and Georgetown University.

Cory Labrecque is Associate Professor of Bioethics and Theological Ethics, and Chair of Educational Leadership in the Ethics of Life at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Laval in Quebec. Cory’s research lies at the intersection of religion, medicine, biotechnology, environment, and ethics. He previously taught at the Center for Ethics, Faculty of Medicine, and Department of Religion at Emory University and is a corresponding member of the Pontifical Academy for Life in the Vatican. He earned his PhD in Religious Ethics at McGill University.

Tracy Trothen is a professor of ethics at Queen’s University, jointly appointed to the School of Religion and the School of Rehabilitation Therapy. A certified spiritual care supervisor by the Canadian Association of Spiritual Care, she specializes in spirituality, artificial intelligence, moral distress, technology, and aging adults. Trothen holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Divinity from Queen’s University, and a Doctor of Theology from the University of Toronto.

Interviewer: Pablo Ruz Salmones is a Mexican polymath. He is the founder and CEO of X eleva Group, a leading Artificial Intelligence development firm in Mexico. He is also a pianist and composer, having performed on stages in Mexico, New Zealand, and the United States. Pablo contributes regularly to various media outlets in Mexico and around the world, and has delivered lectures on AI, Ethics, Art, and other topics for renowned companies, universities, and research institutes in several countries He has published articles in international academic journals on Education for Sustainable Development, in collaboration with researchers from Humboldt University in Berlin. In his free time, he practices Kung Fu at the Shaolin Temple of Mexico.