Interviews
Religious Digital Creatives and Artificial Intelligence – An Interview with Professor Heidi Campbell
Heidi Campbell is Professor of Communication at Texas A&M University where she teaches in Telecommunications and Media Studies. Since 1997 she has studied religion and the internet and what impact new media technologies are having on religious communities. She has...
Interview with Ed Moy, Former Director of US Mint, on Trust and Tech Currencies
Ed Moy served as the 38th Director of the U.S. Mint under Presidents Bush and Obama, as part of a long career as a dedicated public servant, shrewd business executive, private equity consultant, television commentator, public speaker, author, corporate director,...
Meet Saqib Shaikh, Tech Leader of Microsoft’s Seeing AI
Saqib Shaikh has been a software engineer with Microsoft since 2006 and the Tech Lead for the Seeing AI Project in AI Research since 2015. This internationally lauded project was publicly launched by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in 2016. Saqib’s work focuses at the...
Interview: A Screenwriter and a Computer Scientist Critique The Social Dilemma
We asked AI&F Founding Members Craig Detweiler and Gilad Berenstein to share their perspectives on the message and storytelling approach of The Social Dilemma as a theologian/media critic/screenwriter and start-up entrepreneur respectively. Craig brings a...
How “Extended Cognition” Can Augment Religious Community Beyond our Experience as Individual Bodies: An Interview with Warren Brown and Brad Strawn
Your new book Enhancing Christian Life: How Extended Cognition Augments Religious Community brings together the disciplines of neuroscience, psychology and philosophy. How did you each come to work in this multidisciplinary space and what do you particularly enjoy...
Interview with Dr. Ted Peters: On AI vs. IA and Theology of the Future
Dr. Ted Peters, (Ph.D., University of Chicago) teaches seminars in systematic theology and ethics in the Theology and Ethics Department at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, and is a Founding Member of AI and Faith. Along with Robert John Russell,...