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AI&F’s Mission Evolves with Rapid Growth in Faith Perspectives on AI
Each month we are seeing more and more articles and books about the impact of Artificial Intelligence on our lives. Increasingly, faith perspectives are appearing. Two cases in point: the publication in January of Religious Transhumanism and Its Critics and this...

AI and Faith Supports Faith ERGs – National Faith ERG Conference, May 23-25, Washington DC
Faith Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) are rapidly growing in number as major American corporations realize that their Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs are leaving out a major stakeholder group among their employees – people for whom religious beliefs are...

AI&F 2022 off to a great start with Andy Crouch, Trish Shaw
Five significant events launched 2022 for AI and Faith, beginning with two new Advisors joining us, each with a broad and deep reach. Andy Crouch (Advisor for theology, technology, and culture) is one of the best-known authors and speakers in Christian circles on...

Celebrating a Big Step Forward for AI&F in 2021!
As 2021 draws to a close, our community at AI&F has much to celebrate and a great base to build on in the year ahead. Forming AI&F 3.0 – Introducing Eight New Fellows and Advisors Beginning with our Founding Member strategy calls a year ago, 2021 has...

AI&F New “Ecosystem” Up and Running
Now that we’ve reorganized into our new structure around the Institute for Faith Perspectives on AI, our constituent teams are starting to meet and move ahead. We want Research Fellows, Contributing Fellows, Advisors and Partners to coalesce dynamically around...

AI&F 3.0 Adds Two Dozen More Fellows, Advisors and Partners
In our September Newsletter, we announced nearly 50 new Fellows and Advisors as part of our our reset of AI and Faith community from a single level of multidisciplinary experts to five new roles for engaging faith perspectives on AI ethics. Since then we have...

AI&F 3.0 First Wave of almost 50 new Specialized Leaders
Over the past six months, we’ve been planning our reset of the AI and Faith community from a single level of multidisciplinary experts to five new roles for engaging faith perspectives on AI ethics. Our first round of recruiting focused on Research Fellows and a...

AI&F 3.0 Launches: New Ways to Engage with Us!
For three years we have been gathering an unparalleled international community of multidisciplinary cross-faith experts on faith perspectives on AI. For two years, we’ve been publishing such perspectives in our Newsletter and adding sophisticated voices to...

AI and Faith Featured in NY Times Article
Friday, July 16, 2021. AI and Faith was prominently featured in a New York Times article titled Can Silicon Valley Find God? by Linda Kinstler. Linda interviewed a number of our Founding Member experts and related partners, over a half dozen of whom appear in the...

Welcome AI Ethics Pioneer Noreen Herzfeld, Religion and Tech Professor Robert Geraci, and Gaming CEO Chris Skaggs as Founding Members
We are delighted to add three new Founding Members this month, taking our Founding Member community to 80 experts. Dr. Robert M Geraci is Professor of Religious Studies at Manhattan College and author of Apocalyptic AI: Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial...