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Feb 06, 2025 I was on The Ethical Challenges of AI: Humanistic and Religious Responses to the Demands of Artificial Intelligence panel at the United Nations along with John Tasioulas (University of Oxford), Father Paolo Benanti (AI advisor to Pope Francis), Nathalie Smuha (KU Leuven), and Benedetta Audia (UN Advisor).
Jan 17, 2025 The New York Times did a follow up study on AI and religion where they mention my work on creating the Rabbit Bot.
Jan 14, 2025 Giving a talk on Wesley Homes on When Your Grandpa Is a Bot: AI, Death, and Digital Dopplegangers on January 14, 2025 and then at Coordinators of Patient Services in Bellevue, WA on January 15, 2025
Jan 02, 2025 The New York Times has an article on the use of AI in sermons where they profile of Rabbi Josh Fixler and the AI generated sermons for Rabbit Bot, a system that I created.
Nov 15, 2024 This week I have two papers out: (1) Building persoanlity adaptive conversational agents for mental health therapy at the International Workshop on Parallel and AI-based Bioinformatics and Biomedicine ParBio at ACM-BCB (2) 𝐸2𝑇2: Emote Embedding for Twitch Toxicity Detection at CSCW
Nov 07, 2024 I am giving a talk (When Your Grandpa Is a Bot: AI, Death, and Digital Dopplegangers) at the Coyote Ridge Corrections Center in Eastern Washingon
Nov 04, 2024 I am giving a talk Digital Resurrections: A Son’s Journey to Recreate His Father with Artificial Intelligence at the Grand Cinema which is part of their Science on Screen Series
Oct 09, 2024 I gave the annual Huntingford Humanities Lecture (When Your Grandpa Is a Bot: AI, Death, and Digital Doppelgangers) at the Jefferson County Library, WA
Sep 27, 2024 I was a panelist at the staging of the Play CYpher in University Heights, Seattle. The play deals with the issues of digital immortality, identity and family.
Aug 20, 2024 Gave a talk on Integrating Machine Learning and Complex Systems perspectives on Chronic critical illness at the Air Force Institute of Technology