NDPC Conversations on Artificial Intelligence: Thursday, April 30th, 6:30PM.
Working Intelligently & Faithfully with AI. Guest Convener: Dr. Mark Douglas
In our previous conversations, we have (1) explored AI and how we can use it and (2) pondered the impact AI is having and likely will have. Now comes the key question: what should you and me and NDPC do about it?
Joining our conversation will be Mark Douglas, Professor of Christian Ethics at Columbia Seminary. He offers us these provocative questions:
- What might a Reformed theology of AI sound like?
- Are there particular practices and policies that should govern AI use in the church?
- How should the church engage in public advocacy around matters related to AI?
- What should be next steps at NDPC?
Register on Realm to let us know you’ll be joining us on 4/30.
Mark Douglas is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and the J. Erskine Love Professor of Christian Ethics at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, GA, where he is the inaugural director of the seminary’s Center for Theology and Contested Publics. He is the author of numerous books, most recently Christian Pacifism for the Environmental Age (Cambridge University Press, 2019), and Modernity, the Environment, and the Just War Tradition, (Cambridge University Press, 2022). He is currently working on a new book, War in a Warming World: Religion, Resources, and Refugees. He is married to the Rev. Dr. Lindsay Armstrong who is also a PCUSA minister and they have one daughter, Logan, who recently completed a PhD in museum studies at St. Andrews University in Scotland.