Interviews

Dr. Arvin Gouw is an instructor of medicine at Stanford and founder of Bacchus Therapeutics, developing small molecule inhibitors of cancer metabolic pathways.  Arvin received his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, master's degrees in...

Micah Redding is founder and executive director of the Christian Transhumanist Association, where he hosts public conversations on the future of religion and technology with leading thinkers such as Kevin Kelly, Aubrey de Grey, David Deutsch, and NT Wright. His work...

Charles Arthur is a journalist, author and speaker, writing on science and technology for over thirty years. He was technology editor of the Guardian from 2005-2014, and afterwards carried out research into social division at Cambridge University. He is the author of...

BibleProject is a crowd-funded animation studio in Portland, Oregon whose mission is “to help people experience the Bible as a unified story that leads to Jesus.”  They have made hundreds of high quality animated videos explaining books and themes in the Bible that...

Dr. Robert M Geraci is Professor of Religious Studies at Manhattan College and author of Apocalyptic AI: Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Robotics (Oxford University Press, 2010), Virtually Sacred: Myth and Meaning in World of Warcraft and...

Dr. Karen Swallow Prior and Professor Maryanne Wolf have written extensively about reading and its impact on individuals and the world. Our Founding Member Emily Wenger, a PhD candidate at the University of Chicago in AI and machine learning, recently interviewed them...

Beth Singler is the Junior Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence at Homerton College, University of Cambridge, where she explores the social and religious implications of advances in AI and robotics. Dr. Singler is also an associate research fellow at the...

Joanna Ng is the founder of Devarim Design. She pivoted to innovate in an entrepreneurial start-up setting, when she left IBM in 2018 after three decades.  At Devarim Joanna is continuing in AI, integrating with IoT and Blockchain, focusing on augmented cognition, and...

Dr. Eric Stoddart is a Lecturer in Practical Theology at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. Dr. Stoddart joined the School of Divinity in 2005. Previously, he held positions at the University of Aberdeen and the Scottish Churches Open College in Edinburgh. Prior...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

Dr. Yaqub Chaudhary is one of our newer Founding Members and an important connection for AI&F with the world of Islamic scholarship in AI ethics.  Dr. Chaudhary is a former/recent Research Fellow in AI, Philosophy and Theology at Cambridge Muslim College in...

Editor’s Note:  Our July Newsletter included a news story about how several European faith or faith-related organizations submitted comments to the European Community’s White Paper on Artificial Intelligence this past spring.  We are delighted to introduce a principal...

Saskia de Vries, Ph.D is an Assistant Investigator at the Allen Institute for Brain Science where her research centers on how the brain transforms sensory information into perception and behavior. Saskia received her Ph.D. from Harvard. Q:  Brain science!  Your bio on...

The current health crisis has brought home in a dramatic way the benefits and perils of transformative technologies.  Donald G. McNeil Jr. reports that a health company has been able to use temperature readings from its electronic thermometers to assess the...

Francis Djirackor is the Executive Director of Elris Communications Services Ltd, providing engineering and other professional services in the telecommunications, broadcast and IT space in Nairobi.  Francis is also a leader at Nairobi Chapel, a dynamic collection of...