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The Glaring Omission of Religious Voices in AI Ethics

Pew Research released a report predicting the state of AI ethics in 10 years. The primary question was: will AI systems have robust ethical principles focused on the common good by 2030? Of the over 600 experts who responded, 2/3 did not believe this would happen. Yet, this was not the most surprising thing about the report. Looking over the selection of responders in the report, there was no…

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#ai and faith #ai ethics #pew research AI ethics survey #religious voices in AI ethics #the future of AI

3 Concerning Ways Israel Used AI Warfare in Gaza

We now have evidence that Israel used AI warfare in the conflict with Hamas. In this post, we’ll cover briefly the three main ways Israel used warfare AI and the ethical concerns they raise. Shifting from facial recognition posts, we now turn to this controversial topic. Semi-Autonomous Machine Gun Robot Photos surfaced on the Internet showing a machine-gun-mounted robot patrolling the Gaza…

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#AI warfare #ethics #Gaza conflict #hamas

Making a Difference: Facial Recognition Regulation Efforts in the US

As our review of Coded Bias demonstrates, concerns over facial recognition are mounting. In this blog, I’ll outline current efforts of facial recognition regulation while also point you to resources. While this post focus on the United States, this topic has global relevance. If you know of efforts in your region, drop us a note. Informed and engaged citizens are the best weapons to curb FR…

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#congress #Facial Recognition regulation #privacy #Seattle #Senate

AI Artistic Parrots and the Hope of the Resurrection

Guest contributor Dr. Scott Hawley discusses the implications for generative models and resurrection. As this technology improves, the generation of new work attributed to the dead multiply. How does that square with the Christian hope for resurrection? “It is the business of the future to be dangerous.”(Fake) Ivan Illich “The first thing that technology gave us was greater strength. Then it…

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#Christian Hope #fake quotes #generative models #music #NLP #theology

How Coded Bias Makes a Powerful Case for Algorithmic Justice

What do you do when your computer can’t recognize your face? In a previous blog, we explored the potential applications for emotional AI. At the heart of this technology is the ability to recognize faces. Facial recognition is gaining widespread attention for its hidden dangers. This Coded Bias short review summarizes the story of female researchers who opened the black box of major applications…

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#algorithmic justice #coded bias #facial recognition #Joy Buolamwini

3 Ways to Discover Strong Spiritual Connection Through Zoom

When our first online groups for Integral Christian Network started meeting in 2019, we spent a decent amount of time getting people up to speed on using a somewhat unfamiliar video conferencing technology called “Zoom.” Obviously, that is no longer quite so necessary. Now we find the opposite problem, which has been deemed “Zoom fatigue.” To which I say, not all zoom meetings are created…

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#Digital spirituality #emerging christianity #Integral Christian Network #mystical Christianity #spirituality #zoom

4 Surprising Ways Emotional AI is Making Life Better

It’s been a long night and you have driven for over 12 hours. The exhaustion is such that you are starting to blackout. As your eyes close and your head drops, the car slows down, moves to the shoulder, and stops. You wake up and realize your car saved your life. This is just one of many examples of how emotional AI can do good. It doesn’t take much to see the ethical challenges of computer…

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#autistic children #autonomous cars #depression #driver assistance #education #Emotinal AI #human flourishing #mental health

Emotional AI: How Affective Computing is Transforming Human-Machine Interaction

You walk into your living room, Alexa dims the lights, lowers the temperature, and says: “You look really sad today. Would you like me to play Adele for you?” This could be a reality in a few years. In this blog, we’ll look into how companies are using facial recognition to read people’s emotions, exploring both the opportunities and dangers of this emerging AI application. This is part of the…

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#affectiva #affective computing #ai ethics #emotional AI #facial recognition

Netflix "Oxygen": Life, Technology and Hope French Style

Netflix “Oxygen”: Life, Technology and Hope French Style

I am hesitant to watch French movies as the protagonist often dies at the end. Would this be another case of learning to love the main character only to see her die at the end? Given the movie premise, it was worth the risk. Certainly, this was an altogether different type of movie compared to my recent Sci-fi review. It is uncommon to see a French movie make it to the top charts of American…

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#AI #Christian Transhumnism #hope #Netflix Oxygen #review #theology

Netflix "Eden": Human Imperfection in a Technological Paradise

Netflix “Eden”: Human Imperfection in a Technological Paradise

Recently, my 11 year-old daughter told me she wanted to watch animes. I have watched a few and was a bit concerned about her request. While I have come to really appreciate this art form, I feared that some thematic elements would not be appropriate to her 11 year-old mind. Yet, after watching the first episode of Netflix Eden, my concerns were appeased and I invited my two oldest (11 and 9) to…

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#AI #Christianity #cryogenics #human vulnerability #netflix eden

Vulnerable like God: Perfect Machines and Imperfect Humans

This four-part series started with the suggestion that AI can be of real help to theologians, in their attempt to better understand what makes humans distinctive and in the image of God. We have since noted how different machine intelligence is from human intelligence, and how alien-like an intelligent robot could be ‘on the inside’, in spite of its humanlike outward behavior. For theological…

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#AI #image of God #irrational #vulnerability

Human-level, but not Humanlike: The Strangeness of Strong AI

Photo by Possessed Photography on Unsplash The emergence of AI opens up exciting new avenues of thought, promising to add some clarity to our understanding of intelligence and of the relation between intelligence and consciousness. For Christian anthropology, observing which aspects of human cognition are easily replicated in machines can be of particular help in refining the theological…

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How Does AI Compare with Human Intelligence? A Critical Look

In the previous post I argued that AI can be of tremendous help in our theological attempt to better understand what makes humans distinctive and in the image of God. But before jumping to theological conclusions, it is worth spending some time trying to understand what kind of intelligence machines are currently developing, and how much similarity is there between human and artificial…

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#AI #deep learning #human intelligence #machine learning

Artificial Intelligence: The Disguised Friend of Christian Anthropology

Photo by Rod Long on Unsplash AI is making one significant leap after the other. Computer programs can nowadays convincingly converse with us, generate plausible prose, diagnose disease better than human experts, and totally trash us in strategy games like Go and chess, once considered the epitome of human intelligence. Could they one day reach human-level intelligence? It would be extremely…

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#AI #artificial intelligence #christian anthropology #imago dei

Integrating the Sacred with the Technical Part I: An AI Worldview

Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash At first glance, the combination between AI and theology may sound like strange bedfellows. After all, what does technology have to do with spirituality? In our compartmentalization-prone western view, these disciplines are dealt with separately: technical versus human, objective versus subjective, and sacred versus profane. Hence the first step on this…

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Citizens Unite: Global Efforts to Stand Up to Digital Monopolies

Politicians lack the knowledge to regulate technology. This was comically demonstrated in 2018 when Senator Hatch asked how Zuckerberg could keep Facebook free. Zuckerberg’s response became a viral meme: Taken from Tenor.com Zuckerberg’s creepy smile aside, the meme drives home the point that politicians know little about emerging technologies. What can be done about this? Lawmakers cannot be…

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#citizen action #digital monopolies #Facebook #global anti-trust push

Surveillance Capitalism: Exposing the Power of Digital Monopolies

Taken from pixabay and unsplash On January 28, I attended the online forum Medium in Conversation: How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism. In this blog, I summarize the main points from the discussion along with some reflections on how we can respond. Maybe at first glance, we can’t really see what surveillance capitalism has to do with AI. But the two topics walk side by side. Surveillance…

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#algorithms #digital monopolies #surveillance capitalism

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