{"id":220321,"date":"2026-05-26T11:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T15:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/at-athens-summit-elder-gong-says-ai-needs-a-moral-compass-rooted-in-faith\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T11:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T15:50:10","slug":"at-athens-summit-elder-gong-says-ai-needs-a-moral-compass-rooted-in-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/at-athens-summit-elder-gong-says-ai-needs-a-moral-compass-rooted-in-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"At Athens Summit, Elder Gong Says AI Needs a Moral Compass Rooted in Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org\/article\/with-a-moral-compass-ai-could-offer-the-gift-of-possibility\">At Athens Summit, Elder Gong Says AI Needs a Moral Compass Rooted in Faith<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org\/article\/with-a-moral-compass-ai-could-offer-the-gift-of-possibility\">https:\/\/newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org\/article\/with-a-moral-compass-ai-could-offer-the-gift-of-possibility<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-26 11:06:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org\">newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Elder Gerrit W. Gong emphasized the need for artificial intelligence (AI) to be grounded in moral and ethical principles during the Athens Summit on AI Ethics, organized by the American Security Foundation.<\/li>\n<li>He highlighted that AI has the potential to offer a &#8220;gift of possibility,&#8221; enabling people to reach their God-given potential but warned that its full potential will only be realized if it is as morally good as it is powerful.<\/li>\n<li>Gong advocated for integrating the wisdom of the world&#8217;s religions and ethical traditions to anchor AI\u2019s development with human dignity and morality.<\/li>\n<li>He stressed the role of faith communities in guiding technological advancement by ensuring that AI reflects the moral compass and human values.<\/li>\n<li>The symposium saw the formation of the Consortium for Evaluating Faith and Ethics in AI (CEFE-AI), comprising faith-based universities to reduce bias and benchmark AI systems on diverse religious beliefs.<\/li>\n<li>Elder Gong concluded by urging all stakeholders to ensure that AI is developed in a way that enhances human agency, character, and purpose.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Athens Summit, Elder Gong Says AI Needs a Moral Compass Rooted in Faith https:\/\/newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org\/article\/with-a-moral-compass-ai-could-offer-the-gift-of-possibility&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org\/media\/640x480\/M85A2642.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-220321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220323,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220321\/revisions\/220323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}