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Leading Tech Diplomat and Historian Join AI and Faith as Founding Members
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...

AI and Faith Welcomes Two New Founding Members from Islamic Academic Programs
Benaouda Bensaid is an Associate Professor in Islamic Studies and Advisor to the President of Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University in Istanbul, Turkey. His research and teaching focus on Muslim spirituality, Islamic Ethics and Law, and Sustainable Development....

Microsoft Research Podcast Producer and Host Gretchen Huizinga joins the AI and Faith Board
We are delighted to welcome Founding Member Gretchen Huizinga to the AI&F board. Gretchen learned of AI and Faith’s work from Founding Member Professor Jim Wellman at the University of Washington’s Comparative Religion Program in the course of re-engaging work on...

Virus Accelerates Work on On-Line Curriculum
Since last summer, our Founding Members Nathan Colaner and Michael Paulus have been comparing notes and outlining a four-class curriculum for use by faith congregations to introduce their congregants to how faith-based values matter for the development of ethical...

AI and Faith Welcomes Ann Mongoven of Markkula Institute as our Newest Founding Member
Ann Mongoven PhD is the associate director of Health Care Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics where her work includes clinical ethics service and consultation; research in health care ethics and policy; media commentary; and educational mentorship. Ann...

AI and Faith Welcomes Four New Founding Members
As part of our continuing goal of bringing together sophisticated tech professionals working in the AI arena with deep thinking ethicists, theologians and philosophers, we are excited to welcome the following new Founding Members to our resource group of experts:...

New Index of ‘Religion-Friendly’ Fortune 100 Companies Gives High Marks to Google, Apple and Facebook
According to a recent and apparently unique study by the Business Freedom and Religion Foundation called the Corporate Religious Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (REDI) Index, “most of America’s Fortune 100 companies have well-developed diversity, equity and...

Building Cross-Faith Connections and Combatting Unfairness and Bias
Our Founding Member Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad have been selected as a fellow of Sinai and Synapses, an organization that bridges the scientific and religious worlds, and is being incubated at CLaL – The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. Muhammad is a...

AI and Faith Developing Connections with Christianity Today for Enhanced Technology and Theology Reporting
Christianity Today (CT) is a widely read publication of high journalistic repute in the global Christian church. Its website receives over 7 million hits a month, the majority of which are overseas. Over the years CT has published a considerable range of articles...

AI and Faith Tightens its Focus to Leverage Expertise While Continuing to Build a Resourceful Community
AI and Faith’s board of six directors has been charting AI&F’s path since our incorporation in November of 2018. At a board retreat in early January, the directors, who are all Founding Members, celebrated our terrific community of sophisticated experts and...