Anthropic, OpenAI Meet Faith Leaders for AI Ethics

Representatives from artificial intelligence companies Anthropic and OpenAI met last week in New York with leaders from multiple faith traditions for the inaugural FaithAI Covenant roundtable, aimed at developing ethical guidelines for AI systems.

The event, organized by the Geneva-based Interfaith Alliance for Safer Communities, brought together participants including representatives from the Hindu Temple Society of North America, the Baha'i International Community, the Sikh Coalition, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the New York Board of Rabbis. The alliance, founded in 2018 to address issues such as extremism, radicalization, human trafficking and child protection, plans additional roundtables in Beijing, Nairobi and Abu Dhabi.

Baroness Joanna Shields, a partner in the alliance and former executive at Google and Facebook, emphasized the need for such discussions. "Regulation can't keep up with this," she said. "This dialogue, this direct connection is so important because the people who are building this understand the power and capabilities of what they're building and they want to do it right, most of them."...