{"id":3969,"date":"2023-02-14T20:00:54","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T01:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/campus.cru.org\/faculty\/?p=3969"},"modified":"2023-07-18T21:06:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T01:06:37","slug":"fear-glory-and-unfair-advantages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/campus.cru.org\/faculty\/2023\/fear-glory-and-unfair-advantages\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear, Glory, and Unfair Advantages"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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I was a little nervous to ask. We used to have a very good, casual work relationship within my research group, so such conversations would normally be very comfortable.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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But just over a year ago, I became the formal head, not just of this group, but also of its host organization, the ZHAW Centre for Artificial Intelligence.\u00a0<\/p>

Speaking about personal convictions is different now that I am perceived as \u201cthe boss.\u201d Words are no longer just my words that one can weigh and accept or ignore; they now come with institutional authority. This is true for strong opinions in meetings about technical matters, and no different when talking about political issues\u2014or faith.\u00a0<\/p>

So here I sat at a reception with the larger part of my employees, holding beers and snacks, and I struggled to work up the guts to ask how they liked the talk last Friday.\u00a0<\/p>

\u201cThe talk\u201d was the\u00a0Templeton Lecture<\/a>\u00a0by Stanford neuroscientist William Newsome on the topic of \u201cDid my neurons make me do it?\u201d The local student prayer group had approached me months before and asked if I would host the talk at the Centre to give it a disciplinary framing. I was happy to.\u00a0<\/p>

But organization was complicated by COVID, and I couldn\u2019t attend the talk myself because of other obligations. Furthermore, due to a communication problem, my team was only invited on short notice to \u201ca talk on the intersections of science and spirituality.\u201d Without a further chance for me to frame the event properly, larger parts of my team had enthusiastically signed up to hear the famous researcher\u2014and now was my first opportunity to ask how they had perceived it.<\/p>

I have seen my share of Christian outreach events\u2014the glorious and the awkward. So, I was considerably nervous about how this event had turned out, and also aware that universities offer little grace for those who abuse their platforms. My mouth was a little dry when I finally mumbled, \u201cBy the way, how did you like Professor Newsome\u2019s talk?\u201d<\/p>

To my surprise, the feedback was overwhelmingly positive. My team found the talk interesting. The discussion afterward with the speaker had been a pleasure.\u00a0<\/p>

How did they perceive the connection between science and spirituality? \u201cFine, something different, no, not awkward at all; we should have more of these \u2018out of the box\u2019 events,\u201d my non-Christian research team replied.<\/p>

I often feel that as Christian researchers, we have an unfair advantage in knowing how the universe works: through faith, we have access to more information, even on our research topics. If we frame that in the language of science\u2014as Bill Newsome did in the event above\u2014we can bring our colleagues into the light as well.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Thilo Stadelmann<\/strong>
Artificial Intelligence
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