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.
October 2023
November 2023
January 2024
05janAll DayAI for Pastors Course
Contributing Fellow Rev. Dr. Daren Erisman will teach a three-week course on “AI for Pastors” where pastors and other ministry leaders will learn how to use AI tools in their ministry.
More information about the January 2024 course can be found at the registration page.
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January 5 (Friday) - 19 (Friday)
March 2023
April 2023
May 2023
June 2023
July 2023
We’re excited to have as our guest for our July Salon AI&F Advisor Vik Modgil. Vik is an AI/ML expert, and the Founder of The Good AI, among the earliest gatherings
We’re excited to have as our guest for our July Salon AI&F Advisor Vik Modgil. Vik is an AI/ML expert, and the Founder of The Good AI, among the earliest gatherings in Seattle of tech innovators seeking to encourage AI for human flourishing. Since the early 2000’s, Vik has been on the executive leadership teams of multiple unicorn startups & multi-billion-dollar corporations. Currently, Vik is Global head of partnerships at Amazon Chime SDK (real-time voice, video, and messaging powered by machine learning). Before joining Amazon, Vik founded Pi Square, a machine-learning startup specializing in Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Extended Reality, synthetic voice and intelligent automation. Wow, that’s a lot of alternative realities! Subjects our Salons impresario Pablo will cover with Vik will likely include his views on opportunities and ethics surrounding cutting-edge synthetic reality, what he has learned from starting The Good AI, and how his involvement in AI&F has caused him to further reengage the Hindu faith of his youth.
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(Wednesday) 8:00 am
September 2023
Please join our third “Town Hall” of 2023 featuring our Advisor Rabbi Mois Navon, who has followed his 35-year career as a pioneering AI computer design engineer with doctoral study at Bar Ilan University in Tel Aviv on how humans should interact, morally, with humanoids. Rabbi Mois’ most recent publication is Autonomous Weapons Systems and Battlefield Dignity – A Jewish Perspective, a chapter in the July 2023 book Alexa, How Do You Feel about Religion?” Technology, Digitization and Artificial Intelligence in the Focus of AI, co-edited by our AI&F Advisor Anna Puzo. Certainly, machine made decisions on the battlefield present the hardest edge of attempts at moral algorithmic decisionmaking, AI&F’s theme for September and October. Our Town Hall host Pablo Ruz Salmones will also explore with Rabbi Mois his front row seat on AI research in Israel since the 1990s, and the AI ethics conversation there.
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(Wednesday) 7:00 am - 8:00 am
AI and Faith is a pluralist organization seeking to engage the world in the moral and ethical issues around artificial intelligence.
