Premier Digital Media announced a webinar event on “AI, Ethics and the Church,” hosted by Dr. Pete Phillips, Head of Premier Digital Theology and Director of the Centre for Digital Theology. The webinar will be hosted on Tuesday, February 15 10:00 am – 11:30 am EST. Registration is open to everyone.
EVENT FOCUS
Discussions will include topics such as what it would mean for us, the Church, to explore more about how we might be pro-human tech. Or how an AI machine could understand a moral imperative.
How ethical is AI? Because AI is programmed by humans, it has been discovered to also include racial bias. In other areas, though, such as in medical diagnosis, legal processing, and climate predicting, it has proven quite reliable.
Some studies have shown that ethics and AI go both ways…we need more ethical AI but also more ethical humans. And what is AI’s role in the future of the church?
PRESENTER DETAILS
Participants in the webinar include:
- Dr. Joshua K Smith – Pastor, Associate Fellow at the Kirby Laing Centre, Cambridge, and author of Robot Personhood and Robot Theology
- Anna Puzio – Ph.D. student at Munster University on AI and Ethics, Speaker at last year’s Global Network for Digital Theology
- Paul Johnston – Technologist, Entrepreneur, Serverless Tech Innovator
- Nicole Kunkel – Humboldt University, Berlin and co-organizer for German Network for Theology and AI.
EVENT DETAILS
Registration for the webinar scheduled for Wednesday, January 26 at 10:00 am EST on Ethics, AI, and Faith is currently open online.
Premier Insight seeks to empower believers to live out and share their faith in a way that impacts culture and draws people to the truth of God’s Word.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Premier Digital has compiled links to numerous videos, blogs and other resources on faith and AI topics for reference at www.premierdigital.info. Here is an example video where Professor John Dyer of Dallas Seminary and author of “From the Garden to the City” explores how AI and Faith might go together after all.
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