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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Can artificial intelligence deepen our spiritual lives, or does it risk replacing genuine human connection? AI and Faith Executive Director Greg Cootsona dives into how technology is transforming modern faith communities+

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Video Pastor talks AI’s role in religious practice

Pastor and scholar Greg Cootsona discusses how AI is shaping the conversations about faith and human connection.

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A recent Barna study shows that American Christians who attend church regularly use AI more than other Americans. Why? Christopher Jones with Mere Orthodoxy offers three incisive reasons (political, theological, and psychological) +

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Listen to 3 of the 13 authors of the book: ⁠Reclaiming Human Agency in the Age of Artificial Intelligence⁠. Dr. Paul Scherz, Dr. Brian Green, and Dr. Noreen Herzfeld examine how AI can erode human agency and ways to construct responsible human agency in an age with AI aiandfaith.org/aif-podcast/...

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Reclaiming Human Agency - Part 1 #73 - AI and Faith

Reclaiming human agency in the age of AI: three Vatican AI Research Group authors discuss how AI erodes agency and how to respond responsibly.

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Discover the September issue of the AI and Faith Newsletter, where we explore AI and Healthcare, reflect on the ethics of caring for ourselves and our neighbors, and share updates from recent and upcoming AI and Faith gatherings. mailchi.mp/aiandfaith/s...

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AI and Faith September Newsletter

Welcome to the September 2026 issue of the AI and Faith Newsletter, where our theme is AI and Healthcare.

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

David Hackett sketches the contours of the 3rd annual AI and the Church Summit, including a word from Episcopal Church Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde. aiandfaith.org/insights/aif...

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AI and the Church Summit 2026 Report - AI and Faith

David Hackett sketches the contours of the 3rd annual AI and the Church Summit, including a word from Episcopal Church Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

One of the strongest arguments for accelerating artificial intelligence is the claim that AI will one day “solve” diseases like cancer," Spaulding notes. But we have the AI now as it already exists is capable of making progress in significant, specific areas.+

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The concept of "rhythms" is becoming increasingly important in AI ethics. Executive director Greg Cootsona offers a pithy gathering of studies, anecdotes, theology, and science to observe, "It seems the more we use generative AI tools, the more we feel alone. +

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

[A rhythm] is kept on purpose and together, or not at all. That is hard, and harder now, since most of our tools are built to let us work alone. No one has to intend the erosion; someone has to intend the rhythm."+

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Rhythms Held in Common: Amplifying Magnifica Humanitas - AI and Faith

Mark Graves's series on human formation culminates here in an shared social value of rhythms, deliberating with Nehemiah 3

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Louis Kim, formerly VP of AI Wearables and Verticals at HP, resigned from the corporate sector to study theology and hospital chaplaincy at Duke Divinity School. In this conversation with Joshua Mauldin (Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton), Louis brings an inside view of+

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Listen to Shoukei Matsumoto, Buddhist monk and author of ⁠“A Monk's Guide to a Clean House and Mind”⁠, and Pablo Ruz Salmones, founder of X eleva Group, a leading AI dev firm in Mexico. Dive into Shoukei's view on navigating these uncertain times with the rise of AI aiandfaith.org/aif-podcast/...

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Living with AI: A Buddhist Perspective #72 - AI and Faith

Listen to a conversation with Shoukei Matsumoto, Buddhist monk and author of ⁠“A Monk's Guide to a Clean House and Mind”⁠

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

What happens when AI becomes more intelligent than us—and we stop asking what makes us human?" In this piece, Ted Peters explores AI, human dignity, transhumanism, and the ethical challenge of keeping humanity at the center of technological progress. aiandfaith.org/insights/urg...

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The Urgency of Reclaiming Human Agency - AI and Faith

In this piece, Ted Peters explores AI, human dignity, transhumanism, and the ethical challenge of keeping humanity at the center of technological progress.

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

AI is a wholistic, ecological issue, as AI and Faith communities continue to deliberate. "[T]he Florence workshop and conference enabled the participants to recognize that the question is not so much how to use AI+

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A Report on the Florence Workshop & Conference - AI and Faith

The Florence conference enabled the participants to recognize that the question is not just how to use AI but how to create an environment for responsible use of virtual technologies

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

As the nature of artificial intelligence and emotion are complicated, what exactly do faith traditions mean when we talk about "the heart of God"?. In this episode of the Tradition Podcast, associate editor Chaim Strauchler meets with AI and Faith advisor Marina Zilbergerts +

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

In view of human fallenness (in secular terms: the frequently hubristic failures to anticipate the dark fruits of our actions), why ought we to hold an optimistic view about the outcome of the oncoming, largely unregulated release of AI?"+

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Debating AI: Rebuttal to Ilia Delio by Michael E Zimmerman.

Should we confer dignity on the superintelligent posthuman? Episode 5

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Listen to Gilad Berenstein, Ben Christensen and Dr. Marcus Schwarting discuss the AI lab leaks we’ve been reading about all summer, about AI creativity and it’s impact on art, and about the responsible deployment of artificial intelligence. aiandfaith.org/aif-podcast/...

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AI in the News and Current Affairs: AI Governance, AI Creativity and More #71 - AI and Faith

Listen to Gilad Berenstein, Ben Christensen and Dr. Marcus Schwarting discuss the AI lab leaks, creativity and responsible deployment.

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

AI and Human Flourishing Webinar On August 6, 2026, the G20 Interfaith Forum, in cooperation with the International Academy for Multicultural Cooperation, held a webinar entitled “AI and Human Flourishing,” the sixth in an eight-part series on artificial intelligence.+

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Discover the August issue of the AI and Faith Newsletter, where we continue exploring AI and Chaplaincy, revisit our recent symposium, and share about our new book. mailchi.mp/aiandfaith/a...

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AI and Faith August Newsletter

Welcome to the August 2026 issue of the AI and Faith Newsletter, where our theme is AI and Chaplaincy.

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

What does the Bible teach about artificial intelligence? A new book from Friendship Press, developed in partnership with AI and Faith, helps us explore that question by drawing on the whole breadth of Christian scripture. +

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Is AI an assist, an adjunct, or an adversary in Healthcare Chaplaincy? AI and Faith held a Chaplaincy Forum in July. We had 175 people join us for a day of discussion on the intersection of artificial intelligence, chaplaincy, and healthcare. +

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

AI and Faith will host a panel on September 9 (9:30-11am PDT) discussing the newly published book Reclaiming Human Agency in the Catholic Tradition from the AI Research Group of the Vatican’s Centre for Digital Culture. The book examines how AI can erode human agency +

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Join the Technology, Innovation & Digital Engagement Lab (TIDEL) at Union Theological Seminary for their upcoming symposium and summit. Scholars and practitioners will gather to discuss the intersection of ethics, human flourishing and the swift pace of innovation and technology+

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Listen Luke Hartsock and Greg Cootsona. They talk about Luke’s paper: “When Words Become Weights: How LLMs Humiliate the Word, and How to Build Dialogue That Doesn’t.” Also, how faith can influence AI development and Luke’s AI system called GANDALF aiandfaith.org/aif-podcast/...

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The Golden Rule and the Narrow Path: Building AI That Keeps Its Word #70 - AI and Faith

Luke Hartsock and Greg Cootsona discuss Luke's piece: How LLMs Humiliate the Word, and How to Build Dialogue That Doesn't

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

What we call liberation is the work of conferring dignity on those denied dignity so they can claim that dignity." Ted Peters replies to Ilia Delio's Teilhardian affirmation of posthuman dignity in perhaps the most robust exchange yet in the debate series. +

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The term “Luddite” originally described British weavers who protested the loss of their livelihoods and who were ultimately met with public execution and exile. The use of this term has softened and expanded,+

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Readers of Teilhard de Chardin and those who think in terms of evolutionary progression will be interested in Peters’s third debate installment from Fr. Augustine Pamplany. What exactly is the difference between consciousness and intelligence?+

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

How easy is it to put our hope in enhancement rather than in salvation—how easy is too easy? Arvin Gouw and Ted Peters compare notes in this short, second installment of Ted Peters’s debate on human enhancement following Magnifica Humanitas. tedp.substack.com/p/debating-a...

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Debating AI, Post-Humanity, and Arvin Gouw.

Should we confer dignity on the superintelligent post-human? Episode 2

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Prompting an AI well is a learned and taught skill. What we say often is not what we mean, particularly in a hospital room. Hank Spaulding responds to Hansen's article "My Artificial Chaplain" (re-posted last month) to further expound the chaplain's work of being present. +

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Douglas Estes and Marcus Schwarting, Christian biblical scholars, discuss their book: 40 Bible Passages About AI: Scripture for an Age of Intelligent Machines. Listen to all the ways AI decisions can be guided from the Bible aiandfaith.org/aif-podcast/...

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How to Use the Bible to Guide Our Artificial Intelligence Decisions #69 - AI and Faith

Dr. Douglas Estes and Dr. Marcus Schwarting, discuss their new book: 40 Bible Passages About AI: Scripture for an Age of Intelligent Machines

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

AI and Faith has compiled resources from our AI and Governance theme, from May to June 2026. Check out our articles and podcasts on this theme. aiandfaith.org/news/artific...

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Artificial Intelligence and Governance Resources - AI and Faith

Read AI and Faith compiled resources from our AI and Governance theme.

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Discover the July 2026 edition of the AI and Faith Newsletter, exploring AI and Chaplaincy. How should AI support chaplains without replacing the human relationships at the heart of their work? +

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AI and Faith July Newsletter

Welcome to the July 2026 issue of the AI and Faith Newsletter, where our theme is AI and Chaplaincy.

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Tracy Trothen and Jason Weiner, a Christian and a Jewish chaplain on the front lines of bioethics, discuss how they bring faith and religious tradition to the very modern questions posed by bioethics and artificial intelligence emergence into this field. aiandfaith.org/aif-podcast/...

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Two Chaplains Discuss Artificial Intelligence and Bioethics #68 - AI and Faith

Tracy Trothen and Jason Weiner, a Christian and a Jewish chaplain, discuss faith, bioethics, and artificial intelligence.

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

You may have caught Europe 2031, a speculative piece published in June that muses the future (irrelevance) of Europe in a landscape of AI. What are we to make of predictions like these? +

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

From ethicswashing to outright ethicsbashing, it is tempting to believe the project of public ethics is a waste of energy. Yet, despite the inefficiency of ethics, or perhaps because of it, the significance of public ethics persists, not least for matters of governance. +

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

A machine can always say yes, instantly, warmly, at no cost to itself. We’re the ones for whom saying yes costs something. And that cost is not a defect in our care. It is the whole of it. aiandfaith.org/insights/can...

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Can a Chatbot Be Present? Why Comfort Is Not the Same as Accompaniment - AI and Faith

A machine can always say yes, instantly, at no cost to itself. We’re the ones for whom saying yes costs something.

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Candler School of Theology associate professor of practical theology Danielle Tummino Hansen reflects on her experience using a chatbot as a chaplain. In these reflections, +

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

AI and Faith is sponsoring the “The AI Church Summit 2026”, from August 24-27, 2026, with its theme on faithful human agency in an emerging AI-shaped world. AI&F has been a part of the event planning team, ecumenically hosted by leaders from The Episcopal Church,+

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

There is so much happening in the world of AI that keeping up can feel impossible. To help us cut through the noise, we invited two experts to unpack what’s on their radar right now. Listen now to Ben Christensen and Dr. Marcus Schwarting aiandfaith.org/aif-podcast/...

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AI News, Current Events, and Critical Conversations #67 - AI and Faith

Listen to Ben Christensen and Dr. Marcus Schwarting discuss the latest AI model releases, AI and discrimination and ethics

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

A quick reminder to register for the AI and Faith – Chaplaincy, Care & AI Symposium on July 21. Is AI an assist, an adjunct, or an adversary in Healthcare Chaplaincy? Join us for a half day of discussion on the intersection of artificial intelligence, chaplaincy, and healthcare. +

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Chaplains' Reflections on the Design and Usage of AI for Conversational Care dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.... In this study, researchers asked chaplains to build AI chatbots. In building chatbots, significant findings about chaplains' perception of AI and the work of chaplaincy emerge. +

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Chaplains' Reflections on the Design and Usage of AI for Conversational Care | Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

The Enlightenment tangles up Western imaginations in categories of real and not real, material or immaterial. Whether we like it or not, they are default ways of speaking and talking about artificial intelligence (the categories are inherent in the name!) +

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The May 2026 issue of public theology journal PaxLumina offers a broad range of Christian perspectives on AI, primarily from SE Asia and also Africa. Topics include maintaining national digital sovereignty, environmental impact projects, +

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Attention to "solidarity" with the poor as an ethical practice of Christian mission is growing. Gaudet's work builds on John Slattery's notice to what the Pope's ethical solidarity with the poor might have looked like+

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

We have a debate going! The full name of the recent encyclical is “Magnifica humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence.” What does it mean to safeguard the human person, and how?+

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Debating AI, Post-Humanity, and Magnifica Humanitas.

Should we confer dignity on the superintelligent posthuman? Episode 1

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

AI and Faith – Chaplaincy, Care & AI Symposium on July 21: Is AI an assist, an adjunct, or an adversary in Healthcare Chaplaincy? The future of compassionate care is being shaped today. Join leading experts for a thought-provoking discussion on AI, chaplaincy, and healthcare+

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Listen to our interview with Salah Dandan, a lawyer and business executive in the technology, media, and telecommunication sectors. He discussed how Sharia principles can serve as a legal framework for developing artificial intelligence systems. aiandfaith.org/aif-podcast/...

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AI and Islamic Law: A Practical Approach #66 - AI and Faith

Listen to Salah Dandan discusses how Sharia principles can serve as a legal framework for developing artificial intelligence systems

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Welcome to the June 2026 issue of the AI and Faith Newsletter, where our theme is AI and Governance. Our experts have been exceptionally prolific this month with the release of the Vatican encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas.” +

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

A behind-the-scenes look at the role AI and Faith experts play in the Vatican’s work on AI ethics and in Anthropic’s future direction. AI and Faith Board Chair Emeritus David Brenner puts a face to the names of the scholars working to shape the future of AI ethics. aiandfaith.org/insights/epi...

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Of Epics and Epochs: Pope Leo’s Encyclical Marks a Watershed - AI and Faith

AI and Faith Board Chair Emeritus David Brenner puts a face to the names of the scholars working to shape the future of AI ethics.

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AI and Faith @aiandfaith.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

We must all be the adults in the room we’ve been waiting for.” Nicholas Hayes-Mota and AI and Faith expert Brian Patrick Green compare the encyclical for workers’ rights of the 1891 Industrial Revolution and the Vatican’s current encyclical on AI ethics. +

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