Ethics Center
The Ethics Center at Baylor University is a community of scholars and practitioners dedicated to critical and creative research and teaching about how Christian beliefs and practices relate—presently and potentially—to the broader cultural, social, economic, and political systems that we inhabit as local, national, and global citizens.
Examining the societal impact of AI and data, promoting ethical standards that prioritize privacy, fairness, and community benefit.
Bioethics explores ethical issues in life, health, and well-being, focusing on biotechnology, policy, and equity, while promoting community health and integrating Christian perspectives.
Addressing ethical challenges in our interconnected world, focusing on human rights, environmental ethics, and global health to promote justice and peace.
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We are seeing a systematic pattern of religious omissions. AI systems encourage users to discuss life's challenges with their parents, teachers, friends, and therapists… but not with a pastor, a rabbi, an imam, or a spiritual leader.
Why might people look to the church before looking to the technologists developing AI to answer questions about how to use it?
“The simple answer, probably, is that the knowledge and the understanding and the experience and expertise that you need to develop AI systems is just not the same as the knowledge and the understanding and the experience that you need to reflect ethically on them [and] to address the questions these systems raise,” explained Dr. Neil Messer, a professor of theological bioethics at Baylor.