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08/30/2026

Do AI systems avoid mentioning religion in response to questions about purpose, meaning and grief?

In our AI & Benchmark webinar, Computer Science Professor Dr. Wingate examines AI responses to such questions. Listen to this clip to learn his findings.

Tune into the full webinar on our YouTube channel to hear more of his findings on benchmarking AI.

This October, faith leaders, scholars, and policymakers gather in Salt Lake City as the United States hosts the G20. The...
08/29/2026

This October, faith leaders, scholars, and policymakers gather in Salt Lake City as the United States hosts the G20. The 2026 G20 Interfaith Forum runs October 15–17 under the theme “Resilient Hope, Shared Future,” and focuses on the priorities shaping this year’s global agenda.

Our new blog offers a full overview of the program, the venues, and what the Forum aims to carry forward to the G20 Leaders’ Summit in December.
Read it here.

https://blog.g20interfaith.org/2026/08/28/resilient-hope-shared-future-a-preview-of-the-2026-if20-forum-in-salt-lake-city/

08/28/2026

What is the purpose of learning?

Reverend Marian Edmonds Allen discusses ways AI is affecting the foundations of our educational systems, including why we seek learning, and skills students may lose by overusing AI systems.

Don’t forget to listen to our AI & Education webinar to hear her full remarks!

08/23/2026

Our latest webinar explored AI and the future. As artificial intelligence continues to advance, humanity faces a critical choice: how do we navigate its risks while harnessing its possibilities? The conversation highlighted the responsibility we have to thoughtfully guide this powerful technology and ensure it serves humanity and the common good.

The author of this book will be on our plenary stage in Salt Lake City this October.David Beckmann (pastor, economist, a...
08/22/2026

The author of this book will be on our plenary stage in Salt Lake City this October.

David Beckmann (pastor, economist, and for 29 years President of Bread for the World) argues in Poverty Abolitionists: Faith, Activism, and Hope for Difficult Times that we already have the knowledge, the evidence, and the resources to end poverty, and that this possibility carries a responsibility to act.

In her reflection on the book, IF20 Vice President Katherine Marshall traces Beckmann’s five insights and ten strategies, from legislative advocacy and voting to reaching across the divides that roil our politics, all anchored in a conviction that poverty is, above all, a foundational religious issue. Ending hunger has long sat among IF20’s priority recommendations — and Beckmann will bring that case directly to the 2026 Forum, October 15–17.

08/20/2026

Is AI serving or hurting children and education systems?

Noah Torres, policy director of the Family Success Project at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, emphasizes that education is about more than knowledge. Its influence especially on sociality and civic responsibility is threatened by an overuse of AI in education.

Listen to our AI & Education webinar to hear his full remarks!

Will AI be our deliverer, or our destroyer?After three months of AI conferences (UN Open Source Week, the first UN Globa...
08/19/2026

Will AI be our deliverer, or our destroyer?
After three months of AI conferences (UN Open Source Week, the first UN Global AI Dialogue in Geneva, and Ai4 - Artificial Intelligence Conferences 2026 in Las Vegas) Dr. Marianna Richardson, IF20’s Director of Communications and head of our AI Working Group, came away with plenty of facts and a harder question: how much do any of us actually understand?

In her latest piece, she looks at agentic AI reshaping work and education, the rising cost of the tools businesses now depend on, and the technological colonialism leaving the Global South out of the race entirely. Her argument is simple: AI is a machine made by humans to help humans flourish. Keep that perspective, and governance follows. Lose it, and the whole sandbox is in disarray.

Read the full piece:

https://blog.g20interfaith.org/2026/08/18/artificial-intelligence-the-deliverer-or-the-destroyer/

08/18/2026

Mark Graves, Director at the AI & Faith nonprofit, considers the meaning of human flourishing. He speaks about how to measure whether AI is promoting or detracting from flourishing.

Listen to our AI & Human Flourishing Webinar to hear more, and don’t forget to join our last webinar of the summer series this Thursday!

Eighty-four percent of U.S. students now use generative AI for schoolwork. Only about 20% of schools have a policy.In th...
08/17/2026

Eighty-four percent of U.S. students now use generative AI for schoolwork. Only about 20% of schools have a policy.

In the seventh webinar of IF20’s AI series, three leaders in AI ethics, theology, and family policy asked a harder question than “should we ban it?”: What is learning actually for? Medlir Mema, Rev. Dr. Marian Edmonds-Allen, and Noah Torres made the case that education is the formation of the whole person, not the production of faster answers — and that the classrooms which protect friction, relationship, and human agency may end up being the most valuable ones.

Read the full summary: https://blog.g20interfaith.org/2026/08/17/ai-and-education/

08/17/2026

How can AI be positively integrated in education?

Reverend Dr. Marian Edmonds-Allen works with the AI & Spirituality Initiative at Harvard Medical School. In Thursday’s webinar, she shared insight on the importance of preserving human agency as AI is adopted in education.

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