AI Theology

The Economist only confirmed what I already knew: Gen Z is awesome! Let's stop bashing them.

Reasons to be cheerful about Generation Z They are not doomed to be poor and anxious

After years of partnership, AI Theology and AI and Faith have merged as one organization sharing volunteer resources and digital assets. The conversation started in early June, when the leadership of both groups evaluated the many overlaps between the organizations and concluded that a full joining of forces was warranted. AI Theology brings in a wealth of content, a 1,000-member-strong Facebook community, a web portal, and 5 additional experts to the AI and Faith fold. With this move, Elias Kruger, founder of AI Theology, has now joined the executive team of AI and Faith (he was already an advisor). The expanded structure will empower AI and Faith to reach wider audiences and produce new content.

More to come on this merger https://aiandfaith.org/?fbclid=IwAR1stCLG8Ec8KFIGSe88xD_8kNaaviwcoxFAGQVFI8-xQ1bIqetoi2m3mso

Forbes brought up 5 ways AÍ could help and transform medical care. Read more here

Council Post: The Transformative Impact Of Artificial Intelligence In Medical Tech While potentially impeding progress, government regulations play a crucial role in protecting patients and society.

EU lawmakers are setting a draft of rules and regulation for AI this month. A worker from Meta has written a letter against EU regulation. He and other 160 people believe that EU proposed rules will force innovative companies and investors to withdraw from the EU. See more about this here

Draft EU artificial intelligence rules could hurt Europe: open letter EU lawmakers agreed to a set of draft rules this month where systems like ChatGPT would have to disclose AI-generated content, help distinguish so-called deep-fake images from real ones and ensure safeguards against illegal content.

The Guardian interviewed five different computer science experts on their point on how AI is changing and will change our world.

Five ways AI could improve the world: ‘We can cure all diseases, stabilise our climate, halt poverty’ It is not yet clear how the power and possibilities of AI will play out. Here are the best-case scenarios for how it might help us develop new drugs, give up dull jobs and live long, healthy lives

Can Machines do gardening? Meet AlphaGarden, a combination of a commercial robot farming system and UC Berkeley’s AlphaGardenSim, which tells the robot what to do to maximize plant health and growth. In some cases, this robot can do a better job than humans, read about it here:

Robot Passes Turing Test for Polyculture Gardening UC Berkeley’s AlphaGarden cares for plants better than a professional human

Meta is developing an AI-powered text-to-speech technology that can identify over 4,000 languages. The goal, Meta says, is to preserve the world's languages, and the tech giant is using the Bible and other religious texts to do it. A dataset of readings of the New Testament, Meta said, provided more than 1,100 languages that provided 32 hours of data per language on average. What are your thought on this type of model training?

Meta Is Training Its AI on the Bible and Other Religious Texts - Decrypt For its artificial intelligence speech tool, Meta is processing over 4,000 languages with the aim of preservation.

Here are the winners of the AI Theology 2045 writting contest. The top three stories are groundbreaking and have compelling narratives. Check out the writers behind the winning stories and a little snippet of what’s coming to the AIT book.

You can also see them in our blog: https://aitheology.com/ait2045_contest/

Ethics and AI in health: the World Health Organization (WHO) is calling for caution to be exercised in using artificial intelligence (AI) generated large language model tools. Read more about it here:

WHO calls for safe and ethical AI for health The World Health Organization (WHO) is calling for caution to be exercised in using artificial intelligence (AI) generated large language model tools (LLMs) to protect and promote human well-being, human safety, and autonomy, and preserve public health.

CEO of OpenAI (ChatGPT creator) is calling for regulation in AI. "I think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong...we want to be vocal about that," Mr Altman said. "We want to work with the government to prevent that from happening." What are your thoughts on this?

Sam Altman: CEO of OpenAI calls for US to regulate artificial intelligence Sam Altman says government regulation is "critical" to control the risks of artificial intelligence.

TBT to one of our Advisory Board meetings from 2022, are we living in a technological age? Read here the discussion around this topic - link in our story

A group of researchers published a study in the Nature Medicine that used deep learning to predict the occurrence of pancreatic cancer. They used clinical data from over 8.6 million patients and reached a accuracy of 98%. Read more about it here

Predicting the occurrence of pancreatic cancer with deep learning. A group of researchers used a deep learning algorithm to predict the risk of pancreatic cancer based on disease trajectories.

Researches from the University of Hong Kong have built a study on the use of AI in education, read about the benefits and challenges

ChatGPT as 'educative artificial intelligence' With the advent of artificial intelligence (AI), several aspects of our lives have become more efficient and easier to navigate. One of the latest AI-based technologies is a user-friendly chatbot—ChatGPT, which is growing in popularity owing to its many applications, including in the field of educ...

Do you believe we are living a loneliness epidemic? In this Forbes opinion article on the correlation between emerging new technologys and our society

AI Offers Promise And Peril In Tackling Loneliness Mental health issues are increasing worldwide. Artificial intelligence may offer potential solutions, but must be approached with caution.

Today AIT recommends the podcast "Your Undivided Attention", a top tech podcast with over 15 million downloads. In this episode, they bring out discussions between the Center for Tristan Harris takes AI to task sounding the alarm on the many dangers it introduces. A sobering but balanced perspective that is worth your time.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ai-dilemma/id1460030305?i=1000605690313"

‎Your Undivided Attention: The AI Dilemma on Apple Podcasts ‎Show Your Undivided Attention, Ep The AI Dilemma - Mar 24, 2023

This week, our AI Theology podcast reaches its first anniversary. We covered diverse themes and discussions. To celebrate, we'll be sharing our top episodes in the next few days. In fourth place is our first episode "Faith, AI and the Climate Crisis" listen to it here

AIT Podcast - Episode 1: Faith, AI and the Climate Crisis Introducing the AI Theology podcast where Elias Kruger and Maggie Bender discuss AI and faith can join forces to address the climate crisis.

Only three days left to sign up for our writing competition!! Don’t miss out, click here and sign up https://aitheology.com/ait2045_contest/

Only two days left to sign up!!

AI Theology 2045 Writing Contest Calling all writers! AI theology is putting out a contest for best stories that describe the the future of AI and Faith.

AI Theology is looking for original and compelling short stories. Submit your story and run for prizes between US$200 and US$1,000!!
Don’t miss this opportunity, sign up now https://aitheology.com/ait2045_contest/

Calling all creative writers! We are excited to announce AIT first writing contest, learn more about it here https://aitheology.com/ait2045_contest/

We're back and our 7th episode is out! Have you missed us?
Find the link to all major podcast platforms here: https://aitheology.com/2023/02/17/6th-ait-podcast-lets-talk-about-the-future-part-2/

Generative AI has been all over the news and on the science community spotlight. But there is a question that we need to pose: "How do we engage with these new AI technologies to ensure they build (not destroy) a flourishing future?". Join this conversation with Elias Kruger https://aitheology.com/2023/01/26/4-ways-to-show-up-to-the-generative-ai-discussion-in-2023/

If I give you a an AI super-computer for free what would do with it? That's exactly what happen in 2020 for UF. Listen to the story on this informative podcast about the future of education. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ai-podcast/id1186480811?i=1000592412208

Our top blogpost this year

Black Panther: A Powerful Postcolonial, African-Futurist Manifesto Much has been said about the importance of of having an African super-hero. I want to discuss why Black Panther matters to all of us.

We are entering the last weeks of 2022. Join us in a throwback of the Top 5 blog posts and podcast episodes of the year.

In fifth place with 112 views is the blog post written by Elias Kruger “The future of christianity echoes of a coming global church”.

Read here: https://aitheology.com/2022/08/25/the-future-of-christianity-echoes-of-a-coming-global-church/ (link in our stories)

20 years ago the technology scenario was very different from today. Can we predict the future by thinking about the past? Participate with Elias and Maggie in a conversation about the future of technology.
Listen now to “A Talk about the Future - Part 1” on all major podcast platforms: https://aitheology.com/2022/12/02/6th-ait-podcast-a-talk-about-the-future-part-1/

Check out our TBT post of the day "AI Impact On Work: Latest Research Spells Both Hope And Concern" - https://aitheology.com/2019/11/06/ai-impact-on-work-latest-research-spells-both-hope-and-concern/

Today we bring one of our AITAB meetings as a TBT Post, check it out! https://aitheology.com/2021/11/04/finding-hope-in-a-sea-of-skepticism-over-facebook-algorithms/

Today AIT Recommends the podcast from The Wall Street Journal: "The Future of Everything". Check it out!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wsjs-the-future-of-everything/id1234320525?i=1000581169428