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Like everyone else, the COVID pandemic upended our expectations for 2020, but it’s still been a good year for exploration and engagement.  Here is a short list of some of what we accomplished in the past 11 months. Expanded our expert community by approximately two...

We are pleased to announce two new Founding Members have accepted our invitation, bringing diverse expertise that will broaden the range of our expert community. Keith Barrows, J.D., Ed.D, is a Senior Advisor for The Future Society, a nonprofit think-and-do tank which...

For the past three months, the AI&F Board and particular Directors David Brenner, Gretchen Huizinga, Dan Rasmus, and Reid Maclellan have been developing a new proposal we are calling FE2 – Faith belief leading to personal Ethical position comparing to company...

We’re very pleased to announce and welcome aboard from each side of the Great Lakes two new top academics working in the area of ethics and computer science to our Founding Member expert community at AI and Faith. Cory Andrew Labrecque, PhD, is Associate Professor of...

Founding Members Michael Paulus of Seattle Pacific University and Nathan Colaner of Seattle University’s Initiative for Ethics and Transformational Technology lead Class 1 in AI&F’s Digital Curriculum “AI: What’s Faith Got to Do With It?” in a live Zoom call with...

At our Board of Directors meeting on August 5, as part of our organizational transformation to a think tank model, the Board voted to create new staff roles of Executive Director and Director of Research, and a new board role of Vice Chair. These roles will...

Last February, the European Commission published a White Paper: On Artificial Intelligence – A European Approach to Excellence and Trust.  The White Paper seeks to create a policy framework for a common European approach to AI that will enable a trustworthy and secure...

We are pleased to have Brian Warren, the Director of Risk Management for Microsoft Corporation, join us as our newest Founding Member and our first member formally in the discipline of risk management.  Brian has worked in risk and credit analysis and management for...

Several AI and Faith Founding Members including Dr. Michael Paulus  Dean of the Library at Seattle Pacific University and Chris Lim of TheoTech hosted a virtual summit on COVID-19 and the Digital Transformation of the Church on May 29th. With more than 150...

We have entered an era in which sovereign nations are finding it essential to cooperate with  the largest technology companies in ways formerly reserved for other nations, as evidenced in this talk given by Brandon Lee, Canada’s Consul General to the Pacific Northwest...