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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. 

We’re excited to have our AI&F Advisor and renowned Silicon Valley futurist Bob Johansen as the subject and focus of our October Salon.  Bob is a Distinguished  Fellow with the Institute for the Future  where for almost 50 years he has helped shape the rise of the modern technology revolution through groundbreaking insight and analysis. Bob will talk about what it was like to arrive in Palo Alto when Xerox PARC and Stanford Research Institute were just beginning to create the rudiments of the modern computing age, significant turning points that informed his own advice and counsel about technology developments, and his “future back” methodology for working backward from a future cast.  Bob will also discuss his long term study and engagement with the future of technology in religion, something he has done for major denominations and discussed as part of our AI&F panel at the 2022 American Academy of Religion on AI and the Future of Religion in 2041.      

Bob now lives and works from Bainbridge Island, Washington.  He holds a Ph.D. from Northwestern University—as well as an M.Div. degree that focused on world religions. He is the author or co-author of thirteen books, including the best-selling Get There Early: Sensing the Future to Compete in the Present, and most recently Office Shock: Creating Better Futures for Work and Living.

An insightful online collaboration by Effective Altruism for Christians and AI and Faith, featuring dynamic lightning talks and discussion on the impactful intersection of AI, charity, and healthcare.

AI & Faith is a community of experts that brings the wisdom of the world’s great religions to the discussion around the moral and ethical challenges of artificial intelligence (AI), equipping both technology creators and religious leaders to help navigate these global changes.

Effective Altruism for Christians is a global community of Christians committed to serving others as well as possible, equipping Christians to be better stewards of their key resources of money, time, and influence.

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.