Introducing My First Substack Conversation Series on Artificial Intelligence

Featuring Kester Brewin and Numerous AI Experts

Jun 03, 2024

Hi Friends!

I’m excited to launch my very own Substack called “Process This” (think blog that shows up in your inbox) where I’ll have more of an opportunity to connect with Homebrewed listeners around fascinating topics.

To get started, I’m hosting a conversation series on Artificial Intelligence with my friend Kester Brewin over the next couple of months, and our introduction livestream is on Wednesday, June 5th (10am PT / 1pm ET). Keep reading to learn more!

IMPORTANT NOTE: Some of the content will be available to subscribers for free, but paid subscribers who support the conversations get exclusive access to the full-length, ad-free expert interviews, Substack Chat conversations with Tripp, and the Integration Livestream. We highly encourage you to get the Substack app (scroll all the way down).

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You can nail 95 theses to the door of a church, but the printing press catalyzes the Reformation, not the act of nailing itself.

You can invent a steam engine and a mechanical loom, but you only get an industrial revolution with a theology that sees poor people's hard labor as sanctifying.

You can build plantations, but you can't get an industrial complex of slavery without a theology that sees black Africans as less than human.

The connection between society and technology does not mean technology is innately spiritual or determinative. It does suggest, however, that technologies – and the industrial complexes within which they interact with our labor - emerge within a socio-cultural context, and the overarching, perhaps invisible belief structures that frame people's lives are the forge within which technologies are shaped into tools that we turn to use.

When we reflect on the Reformation and the Industrial Revolution, we see more than historical events. We see profound shifts in ontology, community, labor, and even resistance. Similarly, the current era may herald a similar shift, raising significant ethical and moral questions that demand attention to GenAI tools.

In our first Process This series, we will explore Artificial Intelligence and how it is and may shape the human future. We will be joined by thought leaders across different disciplines, all bringing unique insights and raising essential questions as we face our shared horizon as a species. Too often, we give in to the temptation to outsource critical reflection about the culture-shaping power of technology to its pioneers and then learn how to accommodate to the world it creates.

AI is more than a fascinating new technology. We must recognize it as a potent force that will reverberate with the far-reaching impacts of the printing press and the steam engine. These impacts, with their significant theological implications about human value and flourishing, should raise our concern and demand immediate attention. That is our goal with Process This: Artificial Intelligence & the Human Future. We hope you join us.

CONVERSATION RESOURCE PAGE

The Conversation Resource Page on Substack will have everything you need to fully engage with this series, which will include links to all the expert interviews as well as a growing list of recommended videos, books, and Substack newsletters that our experts have curated for you.

Conversation Resource Page

INTRODUCTION LIVESTREAM

Livestream featuring Tripp Fuller and Kester Brewin
Wednesday, June 5, 2024 (10am PT / 1pm ET)
Watch via YouTube livestream featuring a conversation between Tripp and Kester Brewin, author of God-like: A 500-Year History of Artificial Intelligence in Myths, Machines, Monsters.

WEEKLY EXPERT INTERVIEWS

Each week, we’ll release an intriguing conversation with an expert - interviewed by either Tripp or Kester. Become a paid subscriber to get access to the full-length, ad-free interviews.

Michael Budett - University of Nottingham.
John D. Caputo - Syracuse University, Villanova University.
Lord Tim Clement-Jones - Co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence.
Ilia Delio - Villanova University, author of Re-Enchanting the Earth: Why AI Needs Religion
Anne Foerst - St. Bonaventure University, author of God in the Machine: What Robots Teach Us About Humanity and God.
Noreen Herzfeld - Saint Johns University, author of The Artifice of Intelligence: Divine and Human Relationship in a Robotic Age.
Michael Morelli - Northwest Seminary & College, author of Theology, Ethics, and Technology in the Work of Jacques Ellul and Paul Virilio.
Brent Waters - Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, author of Christian Moral Theology in the Emerging Technoculture: From Posthuman Back to Human.
Robert Wright - The Nonzero Foundation, author of Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny.
Plus more!

WEEKLY CHAT WITH TRIPP

Each week, Tripp will post a thought / question in Substack Chat, and paid subscribers will have the opportunity to dialogue on the subject. Chat can be accessed through the Substack app or website.

INTEGRATION LIVESTREAM

Livestream featuring Tripp Fuller and Kester Brewin
End of July - TBA
Watch via YouTube livestream featuring a conversation between Tripp and Kester to integrate all that we’ve learned from our expert interviews. (Available to paid subscribers only.)

SUPPORT THE CONVERSATION - GET FULL ACCESS

Support the conversation by becoming a paid subscriber, and you’ll get access to the full-length, ad-free expert interviews, Substack Chat conversations with Tripp, and the Integration Livestream. We highly encourage you to get the Substack app!