New technologies and scientific discoveries are expressions of the Creation mandate in Genesis 1, but they also have the potential to corrupt and destroy. How, then, can science and technology serve true human flourishing?
This booklet dispels some of the sensationalism around Artificial Intelligence, asking instead how a fresh understanding of humanity can shape the trajectory of AI development. It draws on research interviews from ten leading AI practitioners and thinkers, and provides a distinctly biblical framework for understanding AI.
Summary Interactions with apparently human-like and ‘emotionally intelligent’ AIs are likely to become commonplace within the next ten ...
This is a crucial moment in the history of science: a new technology offers the potential to rewrite the script of human life. Carrie ...
The spiritual impacts of social media ‘With great power comes great responsibility’ Uncle Ben, Spider-Man[1] Summary The internet, ...
Nanotechnology, cryonics, gene-editing, mind uploading. Such technologies—both real and imagined—offer a rising hope that humans might ‘defeat’ death. Can followers of Jesus, who already believe in life after death, find common ground with technological optimists? How can these contemporary trends challenge and sharpen an understanding of resurrection? And what hope might Christian theology offer in return?
Speakers: Dr Rodica Mocan (Associate Professor of Cinematography and Media, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca) and Fr. Dragos Herescu (Principal of the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, Cambridge).
This talk is based on Dr Harvey McMahon's Cambridge Paper 'How free is our free will?'
You can read the full paper here
Free-will is fundamental to our sense of wellbeing, and underwrites our sense of morality, our judicial system and the Judeo-Christian faith.
However, science has provided evidence that free-will may be an illusion. Whilst we may not be as free as we like to think, we can still make decisions that determine our character, relationships and future.
This talk is based on Harvey McMahon's Cambridge Paper, available here.
In this talk given at the Social Reformers Summer School 2018, Jonathan Tame explores how Jesus came to fulfil the law, and the implications for our commission to be salt and light to the world.
In April, the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention released a new evangelical statement of principles on—you guessed it—artificial ...
This week is the Conservative Party Conference, where amongst the Brexit promises and leadership speculation some unusual headlines are appearing. Theresa May shimmying on stage ...
On 29th June, we took part in a national conference called ‘For the Sake of the Future: The church, robotics and AI’ organised by CARE. Over 250 church leaders, Christians in ...
The public discussion around AI seems increasingly confused, contradictory, inaccessible, and provocative. In the midst of this, we have just published a discussion paper that ...
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Making room for artists to challenge the way we see God and the world.
How do we strengthen the basic unit of society: the extended family?
Building relational economies for financial stability, economic justice and social cohesion.
How can relational churches thrive with a mission to transform their communities?
Reconsidering our fundamental beliefs and assumptions about the world.
Making room for artists to challenge the way we see God and the world.
How do we strengthen the basic unit of society: the extended family?
Building relational economies for financial stability, economic justice and social cohesion.
How can relational churches thrive with a mission to transform their communities?
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