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AI and Faith Focus on Tech Ethicists in the UK
Our AI&F Advisor Scott Hawley (physics, technology and ethics) is a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Physics at Belmont University in Nashville, where he teaches physics to audio engineering students. And of course, being in Nashville he plays music on...
AI&F Planning AI Ethics and Faith Pluralist Ethics Program in New Delhi Sept 2023
Following our very successful participation in the National Faith ERG Conference in Washington DC in May, we are delighted to accept the invitation of the Religious Freedom and Business Foundation (RFBF) to participate with them in their Dare to Overcome international...
AI and Faith Welcomes Seven New Experts to our Community!
We’re excited this month to welcome a tremendous group of new experts to our community. They are filling key roles for us in areas such as corporate ethics and Faith ERGs, law, psychiatry and neuroscience, and finance. They also help continue to diversify our...
AI and Faith Programs Team Targets 10 New Potential Conferences for 2023
Contributing Fellows and Members are the backbone of AI&F’s mission to “identify, connect, encourage and equip” experts with faith perspectives on AI ethics. They serve and work through four Teams: Editorial, Programs, Communications and Networking. Each Team...
Has Google’s LaMDA Created a Sentient AI? Google Responsible AI Employee says Yes and cries Religious Discrimination – Google says No
Suddenly attracting global attention this week is a question fundamental to the work of AI and Faith: “can an AI-powered chatbot have an inner life, a ‘soul’, that deserves moral and legal protection (along with its professed discoverer)?” Despite the confident...
Congrats to AI&F Research Fellow Dr. Gretchen Huizinga on “Righteous AI”
Congratulations to AI&F Research Fellow and Board Member Gretchen Huizinga on the successful defense of her PhD thesis on Thursday, June 2, at the University of Washington. Her dissertation was titled Righteous AI: The Christian voice in the Ethical AI...
National Faith ERG Conference Produces Great New Conversations and Connections
300 leaders of Faith Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) and related organizations attended the third National Faith ERG Conference at Catholic University in Washington DC on May 23-25. AI and Faith had a major presence with six members of our expert community...
AI and Faith Welcomes New Advisor and Four Contributing Members
We are delighted to welcome a new distinguished Advisor in the area of faith/work integration and four new Contributing Members in the US and Mexico who are joining our Contributing Fellow/Member Content, Programs and Communications Teams. Marsie Sweetland...
AI&F Ethics Panels and Key Note Finalized for National Faith ERG Conference, May 23-25 Washington DC
The third National Faith ERG Conference at Catholic University in Washington DC will feature two panels organized by AI and Faith on how Faith Employee Resource Groups can help integrate faith beliefs into personal and corporate ethics positions around artificial...
AI and Faith Brings Diversity of Expertise to Partnership on AI
AI and Faith is excited to join the Partnership on AI (PAI), see PAI's full announcement below. Continuing our mission of bringing together diverse voices to ensure responsible development and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)...