Institute Course | Hopeful Intelligence: Reimagining AI Through Spiritual Wisdom

How do spiritual realities shape our understanding of generative artificial intelligence (AI), and what new possibilities of “hopeful intelligence” arise when we explore this intersection? In this dynamic three-session course, David Kim, alongside futurist Bob Johansen (Distinguished Fellow at the Institute for the Future), will guide participants through a transformative exploration of how spiritual wisdom can inform the way we design, understand, and collaborate with AI systems.

David was invited in 2021 to join the Advisory Board of AI and Faith where he contributes essays, and has contributed a chapter in Faithful AI. David consults organizations to thoughtfully engage with this emerging technology with a hopeful theistic frame.

This transformative course will present a Hopeful Intelligence framework, exploring how artificial intelligence can transcend efficiency and profit-driven assumptions to become an unprecedented tool for hope, imagination, and human flourishing. Grounded in spiritual wisdom and informed by thinkers like Bob Johansen, Charles Taylor and Otto Scharmer, participants will engage in reflective practices, collaborative exercises, and visionary discussions to reimagine AI’s potential in addressing the world’s deepest pain points with justice, creativity, and grace. Through this journey, participants will learn to align AI with a future marked by compassion, equity, and divine purpose.  We will consider both the theological and practical implications of these questions as we explore this new frontier.

Register now to explore how spiritual realities can inform and transform our approach to one of the most influential technologies of our time.

Details:

Location: Online
Date and Time: Three sessions held on January 14, 21, 28 from 11:30-1:00 ET
Cost: $400 (early bird, before Dec 1) / $550

About your Guide: 

David Kim is the CEO and co-founder of Goldenwood. Over the past several decades, Rev. Dr. David Kim has trained, consulted, and counseled hundreds of leaders and organizations in developing a robust, meaningful integration of faith and work. David’s past experiences as VP of Faith and Work, Executive Director of the Center for Faith & Work, Director of the Gotham Fellowship, and editor of the NIV Faith and Work Bible have given him a breadth of exposure to the challenges of integrating faith and work. His expertise as a key thought-leader in the faith and work space has been well-established having addressed prominent institutions and churches around the world. David’s passion is to help people and organizations see the unseen realities that give rise to the world we create.

Bob Johansen began working with IFTF in 1973 and has worked as a professional futurist for nearly 50 years. The author or co-author of 12 books and a frequent keynote speaker, he recently completed a trilogy that details the types of leadership that will thrive in the next decade. The New Leadership Literacies focuses on essential practices of leadership, picking up where Leaders Make the Future, its more skills-oriented precursor, left off; in 2020, he published Full-Spectrum Thinking, which focuses on the need for a futureback mindset. His latest book, Office Shock: Creating Better Futures for Working and Living, is co-written with IFTF colleagues Joseph Press and Christine Bullen. Bob holds a B.S. from the University of Illinois (which he attended on a basketball scholarship), an MDiv from Crozer Theological Seminary (where Martin Luther King, Jr., attended divinity school), and a Ph.D. in Sociology of Religion from Northwestern University.