Next, Pat Gelsinger of gloo will discuss the future and values-aligned AI.

God is the great conservationist of the good and bad of your life.

Humans have been adapting to computers.

With AI, AI is adapting to humans.

Can we truly trust AI for good?

• Not yet, but we need to be developing this.

Flourishing AI Standards

"Go out and do something wonderful." - Robert Noyce

If we don't hang together. We will fall apart.

For the next keynote, industry experts are discussing their experiences working as a Christian in the secular workplace.

Big Tech Blind Spots (for Christians)

• be open and authentic to help non-Christians understand our faith
• we don’t need “Christian” versions of everything
• you are in a room that is the intersection of two bubbles (tech and Christian)
  • this gives us a chance to see what’s coming

Next: Michael Arena, who is the Dean of the Crowell School of Business at Biola, is discussing being human.

The talk described ways that AI cannot replicate humans and how AI represents a threat.

The first keynote of the afternoon session is from John Dyer who is a VP at Dallas Theological Seminary. He’ll be talking about A Biblical-Theological Framework for Artificial Intelligence.

What is technology and What does it do?

Technology enables us to do work differently (enhances our ability to do something). Importantly, as we use technology, it changes us (muscles when using a shovel or AI impacting our brains and critical thinking).

John’s going to walk us through a technological perspective of the biblical story.

• Creation
• Fall
• Anticipation
• Redemption
• Restoration

Creation

God has tasked us to order the natural world, and that is good.

The Fall

Anticipation

Anticipation can be an idol Reversing the image of God

Redemption

God deeply cares about redeeming our souls as well as the things we create.

One of the most counter-culture skills we can develop as a human is listening and having empathy.

Restoration

Tech Ethics

1. We should build.
2. We should build for human flourishing.
3. We should build in safety systems and consider misuses.

Competency Development for AI

Tech Futures

Questions, Reflections, and Directions

• Who do we want to become?
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This is a panel discussion about AI and Web3. The panel was John Kim (CV Global), John Knox (Gloo), Stuart (Moderator), John Cobb (Ligonier) & Mark Finzel (Biblica)

Triplicate Publishing

1. Print
2. Digital
3. On the Blockchain

One of the panel presenters demonstrated Lightwords, which is hosted on the blockchain.

AI and Web3 offer the ability to provide:

• Security​
• Privacy
• Discoverability/Sharing (zero-knowledge proofs)
• Immediate “out-of-context” or “fake-news” analysis

The impacts exist for:

• Donors
• Christians in closed countries

DAO - Decentralized Autonomous Organizations

• Something that protects the ownership of data but enables sharing and transfer

Web3 –> Greater transparency

AI Agents and Web3 Technology Use Case

• Give an agent access to an obfuscated crypto wallet to obtain resources.
• This enables it to perform actions that need resources.
• If it gets hacked, your liability is limited and you or the agency is protected.

Next keynote is from Bryan Brown of Masterworks

There is a major crisis in Christian fundraising.

• Generational Crisis
  • The demography of donors is changing (getting older)
  • $84 trillion will be transferred, but it’s unlikely to be transferred to nonprofits.
  • Total donor retention is 43%.
  • 72% of new donors don’t make a second gift to an organization.
• Leadership Crisis
  • 75% of nonprofit execs are planning to leave
  • 30% of nonprofits may close or merge soon
• Technology Crisis
  • only 11% feel their data is helping them do their work
  • only 10% of nonprofits feel they are digitally mature
  • only 1% of nonprofits have a data scientist

Technology can help with all of these crises.

Four Big Things We Can Do to Help with These Crises

1. Disorganized and untrustworthy data so data science can be used

   • Get your data organized
   • Keep your data organized
   • Use your data every day
   • Help your data help you

2. Insufficient Analytics

   • He’d love to see an open-source and democratized option for analytics

3. Impersonal Donor Experiences

4. Fatal Allergy to Marketing

There is a paradigm crisis inside nonprofits.

• Most think marketing dollars are a cost and require a short-term ROI based on increased donations.
• We must build robust attribution models that help organizations stop being so scared of spending money on things that can’t be measured directly.

They’re building a unique Christian ad network. If you’re interested, reach out.

Next up is Éric Célérier from HelloBible.ai and Jesus.net, Global Ambassador for The Chosen

MAGA

• Make
• AI
• Great
• Also

Alignment Is Everything

• Alignment shows where your values are.

All AIs are aligned, but what are they aligned with?

All AIs are misaligned.

• ChatGPT will make jokes about Jesus, but not Mohammed.

Alignment must be measured. Not by feelings, but by method.

Last year at Missional AI, they stated 7 reasons why ChatGPT wasn’t aligned with Christian ministry and business.

HelloBible + Gloo established a goal to build a biblically-aligned LLM.

• aggregate trusted Christian sources
• Catholic & Protestant Material
• 1M+ user questions from HelloBible
• AI adapts with the context of the people

It’s not just the software, but it’s an infrastructure for the future of Christian-aligned AI.

It’s also meant to be open-sourced for others to use.

The opening keynote is by James “JP” Poulter.

There was an increase in the number of jobs and job titles.

Driven by many things (see image “What Drove This”)

FOMO - Fear Of Mission Out

FAIGO - Fear of AI Obsolecense

What does it look like when we get all of the productivity and benefits without giving up all of the things humans bring and need?

MIT Technology Review - 31% fewer roles are needed for equivalent work.

Interesting article in a Harvard Business publication by Ethan Mollick.

Another research paper that talks about AI in 2027.

He’s doing a demo to show how the limitation between an idea and a decent prototype has significantly decrease.

• Chat developed a product requirements document
• Used V Zero to then actually develop the code

We need to become full-stack professionals

• Leadership
• Empathy
• Strategy
• Cultural Fluency
• AI Orchestration

He believes AI is coming to take many jobs BUT he thinks we have a great opportunity to take on new, better, roles.

If you don’t have an AI policy or an AI training plan for your organization, you need to get one NOW.

This is especially true for new employees in the first five years.

We need to put the human in its appropriate place with AI:

• In the loop?
• On the loop?
• Out of the loop?

DEI - Digital Equity & Intelligence

The morning devotional was given by Geof Morin of Biblica

Jesus used technology and tools to:

1. Create Connection - Roman roads and ships for Paul to travel
2. Reframe Thinking - Peter’s fishing nets were redeployed by Jesus
3. Lighten Life - The irony of the temple tax with Baal on it.
4. Transform Everything - The Roman Cross was only supposed to be used for slaves, foreigners, and revolutionaries

The “Jesus Tech Stack” is shown in the image.

APPLICATION TIME - How will we leverage technology for the sake of Jesus and redemption?

The Morning #Devotion at Missional AI 2025 is by Geof Morin of Biblica on the topic of #Jesus and #Technology

Full notes will be posted after.