AI Fluency for nonprofits This course empowers nonprofit professionals to develop AI fluency in order to increase organizational impact and efficiency while staying true to their mission and values.

Anthropic has opened a new, free course on AI Fluency for Non-Profit organizations. It looks really good. A certificate is given upon completion. See anthropic.skilljar.com/ai-fluency-f...

In his latest installment, Greg Cootsona’s best paragraph on AI is his last one in this post:

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From LLMs to hallucinations, here's a simple guide to common AI terms | TechCrunch The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might encounter.

[Techcrunch] Want to understand the jargon and lingo of artificial intelligence? Techcrunch is maintaining a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases. Bookmark this!

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AI NEXT - Exponential Join a growing community of church practitioners who are learning to use AI both strategically and tactically for real ministry results. Learn proven methods

Today's Exponential AI webinar shared results of its third-annual "The State of AI in the Church Survey 2025" with data on AI use and attitudes from church leaders across 20+ denominations and non-denoms. Don't miss scanning it! Available online at exponential.org/ai-next/

Voices of faith and religious tradition often remain silent on how AI systems should be built and governed. The Religious Voices and Responsible AI Initiative is a new joint project between AI and Faith (AIF) and the Institute for Security and Technology (IST).

Learn more: lnkd.in/gZQhPfkA

Read the 86-page summary of the Summit on AI and the Church held Sept 2-5, 2025 in Minneapolis, MN with leaders from the PCUSA, UMC, TEC, and the ELCA.

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Boulder-based Gloo evaluates AI on faith values The company says AI should strengthen spiritual and mental health.

Gloo's new "Flourishing AI" evaluation tool ranks leading AI platforms on faith-aligned values and finds Anthropic's Claude performing best under a Christian-focused framework.

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Statement on Moral Guardrails in Artificial Intelligence — Faith Family Technology Network

I have signed the Statement on Moral Guardrails in Artificial Intelligence in response to the incident between the US government and Anthropic. Read the excellent statement at www.faithfamilytech.org/moral-guardr....

AI and Faith AI and Faith brings the wisdom of the world’s great religions to the discussion around the moral and ethical challenges of artificial intelligence.

[AiandFaith] Chatbots for Christians proliferate, and are considering the ethical ramifications on spiritual formation, evangelization, and exegesis. CT’s Bonnie Christian interviews Adi Agrawal about Creed, “a Tamagotchi meets Duolingo for a Christian“.

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[Barna Feb 2026] One-third of practicing Christians say they want guidance from pastors on how to navigate AI. Yet only a small minority of pastors feel very comfortable teaching on the topic.
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Of interest to some of us. A webinar on Feb 7, 9:00 am – 11:00 am (Pacific), "Can AI Have a Soul? What Theology, Psychiatry, and Science Fiction Say". Organizers add, "No charge for ITEST members, clergy, seminarians, women and men religious."

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Lessons from Faith for a Future of AI Abundance #53 - AI and Faith In this episode, we dive deeply into the AI abundance philosophy. We spend time with our guests Brian Sigmon and Dr. David Zvi Kalman, imagining how good things could possiblyRead More

This AI and Faith Podcast episode dives deeply into the AI abundance philosophy. Our guests Brian Sigmon and Dr. David Zvi Kalman imagine how good things could possibly get with AI, and how to ensure that this abundance benefits humanity as a whole.
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Bangladesh sends record 750,000 workers to Saudi Arabia in 2025 DHAKA: Bangladesh sent over 750,000 workers to Saudi Arabia in 2025, marking the highest overseas deployment to a single country on record, its labor bureau said on Friday. Around 3.5 million Banglade...

Around 3.5 million Bangladeshis live and work in Saudi Arabia, and are [now] the largest expatriate group in the Kingdom.

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That Went Well At the Dispute Resolution Center where I now work, all mediations are confidential and privileged. However, we’re allowed to use anonymized anecdotes for educational purposes. In that spirit...

“The problem of humanity is that we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.” -- E.O. Wilson quote found by Kate Gace Walton and shared in her Substack
(kategace.substack.com/p/that-went-...).

Will You Help Us Move Strong into 2026 with our Vital Mission? - AI and Faith We are all watching the already enormous wave of AI-driven change accelerate to ever higher and greater proportions. Meaning our mission at AI&F since 2018 – to bring deep faithRead More

Our mission to bring deep faith values of the world’s major religions into the global debate on AI, and educate faith leaders and tech creators has never been more important. Your financial gift now can magnify the vital work of our community in 2026
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AI and Faith November Newsletter Welcome to the November 2025 issue of the AI and Faith Newsletter, where our theme is AI and Environment.

Read the November 2025 issue of the AI and Faith Newsletter, where our theme is AI and Environment. We share articles on this topic and more, including recent workshops by AI and Faith members and a piece from our new executive director, Greg Cootsona.

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(1/4) The Lausanne Movement Insights for Global Horizons and Trends regularly publishes Briefings, which are short, forward-looking pieces designed to help global mission leaders engage with emerging trends shaping the future of the world and the Church.
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Thoughts for Christians Building LLM Standards and Benchmarks - AI and Faith Building and deploying LLMs for spiritual applications is a challenging endeavor that requires careful consideration and ethical benchmarks

Building and deploying LLMs for spiritual applications is a challenging endeavor that requires careful consideration and testing. In this piece, AI&F senior editor Marcus Schwarting considers the challenges in building religious and ethical benchmarks.

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That’s a definite possibility.

A new project aims to predict how quickly AI will progress Superforecasters weigh in on the subject

By 2040, a consensus of experts expects AI to be as important to this century as electricity or the car were to the previous one—8 on a 10-point scale measuring the impact of different inventions.
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WEA General Assembly Monday 27th October YouTube video by World Evangelical Alliance

A livestream of proceedings of the WEA Global General Assembly in Seoul is available at: youtu.be/A8ZiFEFDHhY.

AI's New Bottleneck Isn't Intelligence. It's Power, Governance, and How You Rewire Work. Forget model size. The new variables are inference budgets per task, power availability for compute, and measurable outcomes: hours returned and revenue started.

Review and summary by Analyst Stephen Smith of the new 300-page “2025 State of AI Report”:
www.smithstephen.com/p/ais-new-bo...

Download the “2025 State of AI Report”: www.stateof.ai

New ERLC guide urges faithful, cautious approach to Artificial Intelligence Emphasizing Spiritual Maturity Over Technological ShortcutsThe Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) of the Southern Baptist Convention has released a new guide, titled "The Work of Our Hands...

I like to catch various church’s takes on AI Read Faith On View’s review of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) new AI guide, titled "The Work of Our Hands: Christian Ministry in the Age of Artificial Intelligence."
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The Bible Access Initiative, founded by Open Doors International and Digital Bible Society, has released the findings of its 2025 "Bible Access List".
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AI and Faith September Newsletter Welcome to the September 2025 issue of the AI and Faith Newsletter, where our theme is AI and Bioethics.

Read the September 2025 issue of the AI and Faith Newsletter, where our theme is AI and Bioethics. We share articles on this topic, including perspectives on AI for medicine and mental health, podcast episodes, and more.

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AI and Faith September Newsletter Welcome to the September 2025 issue of the AI and Faith Newsletter, where our theme is AI and Bioethics.

Read the September 2025 issue of the AI and Faith Newsletter, where our theme is AI and Bioethics. We share articles on this topic, including perspectives on AI for medicine and mental health, podcast episodes, and more. 
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Major study on "How people use ChatGPT.” National Bureau of Labor Statistics assessed 700M users, found usage mostly for non-work-related requests (and now over 52% women). Get report here: www.nber.org/system/files...

Major topics found in chatGPT:

Faith's answer to AI: The Sabbath (RNS) — AI bears the marks of a relentless capitalism at odds with the biblical value of rest.

Religion News coverage of the four Mainline denominations’ Faithful Futures conference on AI. This article is a more philosophical dive into the topics we attempted to address.
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The planning team for “Faithful Futures: Guiding AI with Wisdom and Witness” is poised to receive our 80 participants from four denominations at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Minneapolis (and 280+ participating virtually) for four days of AI discernment. #faithfulfutures

We are so pleased with this choice! Welcome, Greg!