Silicon Valley
The Vatican’s top expert on AI ethics is a friar from a medieval Franciscan order
By Frances D'emilio — January 18, 2024
ROME (AP) — Benanti is the Vatican's go-to person on the technology and he has the ear of Pope Francis as well as some of Silicon Valley's top engineers and executives.
Meet the Christian creators designing chatbots ‘with a biblical worldview’
By Fiona André — July 20, 2023
(RNS) — Since its launch in November 2022 by the research laboratory OpenAI, the chatbot spurred excitement among Christians, forcing leadership to reckon with this technology and adapting their habits.
The danger of finding our meaning at work
By Kathryn Post — June 8, 2022
(RNS) — In extreme cases, work isn’t just rewarding: It’s religion.
How Silicon Valley’s ‘Techtopia’ turned work into religion
By Yonat Shimron — March 8, 2022
(RNS) — In her new book, 'Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley,' Carolyn Chen examines how high-skilled workers have disinvested from organized religion and are instead finding belonging, identity, purpose and transcendence at the office.
At the Vatican, big-tech and interfaith groups team up to protect minors on the web
By Claire Giangravé — November 13, 2019
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A coalition of big-tech companies and interreligious institutions meeting at the Vatican Nov. 14-25 seeks to create a safe environment for children on the internet through cooperation and concrete actions.
Tech companies join Muslim groups in support of historic bill to end travel ban
By Aysha Khan — September 23, 2019
(RNS) — If passed, the bill would be the first legislation to focus specifically on Muslims’ rights.
Nuns in Africa create social enterprise startups to help communities
By Paul O'Donnell — March 28, 2019
(RNS) — A Silicon Valley social enterprise 'accelerator' has linked with a network of African nuns to help low-income families help themselves.
Religious broadcasters take aim at tech giants for ‘stifling’ conservative speech
By Chris Mathews — December 12, 2017
WASHINGTON (RNS) — 'It is unacceptable for these titans to discriminate against users just because their viewpoints are not congruent with ideas popular in Silicon Valley,' said NRB President & CEO Jerry A. Johnson.
Policing themselves? Hate speech watchdog ADL enlists Facebook and others
By Kimberly Winston — November 14, 2017
SAN FRANCISCO (RNS) — The new Center for Technology and Society wants to place tech companies on the front lines in combating online hate speech. But can Silicon Valley police itself?
ADL goes to Silicon Valley to combat anti-Semitism
By Yonat Shimron — October 23, 2017
(RNS) — The Nov. 13 summit, featuring executives from Facebook, Twitter and Reddit, is part of an expanded effort to partner with the tech community on solutions for online extremism.
‘Hillbilly Elegy’: Best-selling author J.D. Vance on faith in Appalachia
By Kelsey Dallas — September 8, 2016
'Church is increasingly something that is relatively confined to upper-income, well-educated people. I think that’s something people should recognize about the role of religious faith in this part of the world.'
A pastor’s mobile ministry to Silicon Valley’s underbelly
By Yonat Shimron — August 10, 2016
SAN JOSE, Calif. (RNS) Like a prophet crying out in the wilderness, Wagers is dogged in his pursuit of justice for the homeless.
COMMENTARY: Yearning for the pleasing ‘bubble’ version
By Tom Ehrich — December 17, 2013
(RNS) We have these yearnings. Not for an all-white Christmas, surely, but for a Christmas season that touches heart and soul, not just wallet.
COMMENTARY: The buck never stops
By Tom Ehrich — October 29, 2013
(RNS) No one will accept accountability, for we live in age when the "buck" never stops on one's own desk, if it stops at all.
COMMENTARY: The temptations – and trappings – of Silicon Valley’s super-rich
By Tom Ehrich — July 24, 2012
(RNS) The privileged see only the prizes they think they earned. Soon, to protect their delusions, they buy politicians and demand that they chase wealth for the greedy by turning the frightened against the vulnerable. By Tom Ehrich.
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