AI and Faith
AI and faith meet at the point where technology forces humanity to reconsider dignity, purpose, and moral responsibility. Many religious traditions see AI as a positive tool for society to use, while also raising concerns about justice, identity, and the limits of machine reasoning. Across these traditions, leaders emphasize that AI must remain grounded in human moral agency, empathy, and spiritual insight. Overall, the dialogue between AI and faith is not about resisting technology but about shaping it. Religious voices seek to ensure that AI serves humanity ethically, preserves what is sacred about human life, and supports a future rooted in wisdom, compassion, and moral responsibility.
Dr DZ Kalman
DZ Kalman is the host of Belief in the Future, a podcast about religion and technology. He is a fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, leads a research team on AI and Judaism at the Shalom Hartman Institute, and is senior advisor at Sinai and Synapses. He is a member of the Faith Family Technology Network, as well as AI and Faith. He writes at Jello Menorah.
Will Jones
Will Jones is an Associate of the Futures Program at the Future of Life Institute (FLI). The Futures Program aims to guide humanity towards the beneficial outcomes made possible by transformative technologies. Jones leads FLI’s religions initiative, which supports religious groups to voice their faith-specific concerns and hopes for a world with AI, and works with them to resist the harms and realise the benefits. In 2021 he attained a 1st Class Honours in English from the University of Cambridge.
Chris Scammell
Chris Scammell is co-founder of the Buddhism & AI Initiative, which brings together Buddhist practitioners, technologists, and contemplative researchers to shape the future of artificial intelligence. He was previously Chief Operating Officer of Conjecture, an AI safety company that emerged from the open-source collective EleutherAI.
He holds a degree in Computer Science, Anthropology, and Philosophy from Colby College, and studied with the Carleton-Antioch Buddhist Studies Programme in Bodh Gaya. He has lived in Buddhist monasteries in London, Canada, and India, and attended the 2025 Mind & Life Dialogue with His Holiness the Dalai Lama on minds, AI, and ethics. His writing on emptiness, AI alignment, and Buddhist responses to AI development appears at the Buddhism & AI Initiative Substack.
