Interviews

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...

On January 30, Union Theological Seminary, in conjunction with Riverside Church, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and The Greater Good Initiative, presented an all-day program in New York City on Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Ethics and...

Hi Jane. Please tell us about your academic background and interests. Hello.  My academic background is in religious studies and philosophy, with some applied ethics mixed in.  I have a  Master’s Degree on Religion in the Contemporary World. My PhD was a comparative...

Thomas, for someone doing research at the Tufts’ Human-Robot Interaction Lab, you have a rather interesting background. Tell us about that. My academic training is in philosophy, classics, and religious studies, so my research interests have traveled down a little bit...

Hi Muhammad. Please tell us a bit about your background and what has motivated your interest in AI?   I have had a keen interest in foundational questions of life and the cosmos since childhood e.g., why are we here? what is the nature of life? how is intelligent...

First, Brian, please summarize your background for us, especially as it relates to AI. What, particularly, has drawn you to the topic of ethical AI?
I have been working on technology ethics issues, including AI, for about 15 years, starting with my graduate studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, where I had a strong focus on biotechnology and ethics.