Conference on artificial intelligence opens with profound question: ‘What is truth?’

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[World Council of Churches] The European Christian Internet Conference opened on Sept. 9 under the theme “What is truth? Ethical and Practical Issues in the use of Artificial Intelligence,” drawing an array of speakers with diverse insights on a rapidly-changing world. This is the second time ECIC has been hosted by the World Council of Churches. The first ECIC was held in Frankfurt, German in 1996 under the aegis of the World Association of Christian Communication. 

Agnieszka Godfrejów-Tarnogórska, president of the ECIC network and a communication officer of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland, offered a reflection in how the opening prayer on Jesus’ response to Pilate — that he came into the world to testify the truth — is direction to us today. 

“It reminds us that truth is not an abstract concept, but living reality grounded in the person of Christ,” she said. “When we as Christian communicators work with digital technologies, we are called to be witnesses to the truth in the world that is increasingly mediated by algorithms and data.”

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