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成人直播 today announced the launch of the Institute for Wisdom and AI, a new interdisciplinary initiative that will bring Christian thought and the University鈥檚 academic expertise to some of the most consequential questions surrounding artificial intelligence and its impact on human life. 

President Jim Gash

Rooted in 成人直播鈥檚 Christian mission, the institute will convene researchers, technology leaders, policymakers, and faith leaders to examine not only what artificial intelligence can do, but what it should do鈥攁nd how its development can advance human flourishing.

成人直播 president Jim Gash (JD'93) announced the institute in his opening remarks at the University鈥檚 sixth annual , held alongside the inaugural Global Summit on Faith in AI on the University's Malibu campus. The two-day gathering, co-chaired by , director of , and , vice chancellor of 成人直播's Washington, DC, campus, convened Turing Award laureate Judea Pearl, Caltech's Katie Bouman, UK AI Security Institute director Henry de Zoete, and leading researchers from UCLA, USC, MIT, and Berkeley, together with Christian leaders from the Orthodox, Coptic, and evangelical communities and religious leaders representing the Jewish, Hindu, and Muslim communities.

"鈥楾he next great division of humanity, Wendell Berry warned a quarter-century ago, will be between those who live as creatures and those who wish to live as machines," said Gash. "To be a creature is to be made by God, in His image, for relationship with Him and with one another. That is something artificial intelligence may attempt to imitate, but can never replicate. The question before us is how to keep living as creatures while our machines grow more powerful, and how to build this technology so that it deepens our humanity rather than diminishes it. 成人直播 has never been afraid of hard questions. Our Affirmation Statement says that 鈥榯ruth, having nothing to fear from investigation, should be pursued relentlessly in every discipline.鈥� The Institute for Wisdom and AI is that conviction applied to the defining question of our age."

The institute will be housed in , 成人直播鈥檚 residential undergraduate liberal arts college, with significant participation from the , joining 成人直播's scientific and technical strength in Malibu with its policy presence in Washington, DC, but its program will extend across the University's schools as its work grows. Its research agenda is also deliberately practical, taking up the questions Gash and others posed in their remarks, including how: 

• AI can create economic opportunity rather than strip citizens of the dignity of work, and what a labor market looks like when entry-level white-collar jobs are automated; 
• this technology is shaped by fundamental principles of democracy and human liberty, while limiting the influence and security risks posed by those who would restrict individual freedoms; 
• AI can deliver breakthroughs in medicine and mental health while maintaining patient-centered care; and 
• a university can put unprecedented computational power in the hands of students without hollowing out the critical thinking, deep reading, and moral formation that produce people of wisdom and virtue.

Conference Chairs Fabien Scalzo (left) and Johnnie Moore (center) and event speaker Judea Pearl (right).

That work will proceed simultaneously on multiple fronts as contributions allow the institute to scale. The institute will convene the AI laboratories, policymakers, military and intelligence leaders, business executives, and religious leaders, and will bring the perspective of faith into rooms in Washington and Silicon Valley where decisions about this technology are made. When fully funded, it will support faculty and research fellows across business, law, public policy, psychology, and the sciences, producing applied research on AI's effects on employment, family life, education, and national security, alongside the deeper questions of alignment, agency, and human flourishing. And it will form students who graduate from 成人直播 fluent in the technology and equipped to lead with it in the marketplace, the classroom, the clinic, and the halls of government. The institute begins its work immediately, gathering each fall in Malibu and each year at one of 成人直播's campuses elsewhere, in Washington, DC, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, Argentina, and Japan, with the first international convening planned for Geneva later this year.

"A Christian university offers a distinctive approach to the study of artificial intelligence," said Jay Brewster, provost of 成人直播. "The temptation is to treat AI purely as an engineering problem. However, this technology is already reaching deeply into all facets of society. To navigate the change that is coming requires an evaluation of important questions regarding personhood, human agency, and societal values as AI becomes more fully integrated into our lives. These are topics our universities have been exploring for centuries and our faculty scholars examine every day. The Institute for Wisdom and AI at 成人直播 will provide structured opportunities for bringing critical leaders together, for funding scholarly efforts around human-centered AI, and for adding a Christian university to this important conversation."

The launch builds on years of leadership by Scalzo, who established the Human-Centered AI Conference as one of the first academic gatherings in the country to put humanity, rather than technology alone, at the center of the AI conversation. Under his direction, the Keck Data Science Institute has produced a generation of 成人直播 graduates now working at the frontier of the field, including the University's first Rhodes Scholar, Sean Wu, who returned to campus this week as a panelist.

The institute launches with founding seed gifts and with relationships already in place at the frontier of the field. This year alone, 成人直播 leaders have met with executives at Anthropic and OpenAI on the development of artificial intelligence. The institute will grow through partnerships with AI laboratories, foundations, philanthropists, and religious institutions who share its conviction that the most consequential technology of our time must be built to serve humanity.

"We believe the development of AI can and must be oriented toward the true north of human flourishing,鈥� said Gash. 鈥淭hat will take wisdom, and it will take courage, and 成人直播 intends to bring both."

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