{"id":220641,"date":"2026-05-26T19:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T23:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/elder-gerrit-w-gong-shares-soaring-hopes-hard-questions-for-ai-church-news\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T19:40:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T23:40:21","slug":"elder-gerrit-w-gong-shares-soaring-hopes-hard-questions-for-ai-church-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/elder-gerrit-w-gong-shares-soaring-hopes-hard-questions-for-ai-church-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Elder Gerrit W. Gong shares soaring hopes, hard questions for AI \u2013 Church News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechurchnews.com\/leaders\/2026\/05\/26\/elder-gerrit-w-gong-athens-ai-religion\/\">Elder Gerrit W. Gong shares soaring hopes, hard questions for AI \u2013 Church News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechurchnews.com\/leaders\/2026\/05\/26\/elder-gerrit-w-gong-athens-ai-religion\/\">https:\/\/www.thechurchnews.com\/leaders\/2026\/05\/26\/elder-gerrit-w-gong-athens-ai-religion\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-26 19:25:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.thechurchnews.com\">www.thechurchnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Elder Gerrit W. Gong of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles kickstarted the AI Summit on Ethics and Artificial Intelligence in Athens, Greece, expressing hope for AI&#8217;s potential to inspire goodness and personal growth.<\/li>\n<li>Gong emphasized the need for AI systems to better reflect human experiences, wisdom from faith traditions, moral teachings and human values.<\/li>\n<li>New studies introduced at the summit revealed systematic religious biases in current AI systems, highlighting the necessity for AI creators to mitigate these biases.<\/li>\n<li>The convergence of views between Pope Leo XIV and Elder Gong stressed the urgency of ensuring AI has a moral compass, emphasizing that neither corporations nor governments should solely determine AI&#8217;s moral direction.<\/li>\n<li>Gong proposed faith-based benchmarking and ethics tests to better gauge how AI systems embody morality and shared values.<\/li>\n<li>He suggested five design principles to guide AI personas: protecting human moral agency, incorporating altruistic values, ensuring AI transparency, preserving human decision-pause ability, and mitigating harmful AI tendencies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elder Gerrit W. Gong shares soaring hopes, hard questions for AI \u2013 Church News https:\/\/www.thechurchnews.com\/leaders\/2026\/05\/26\/elder-gerrit-w-gong-athens-ai-religion\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.thechurchnews.com\/resizer\/v2\/L5DRCY7CGVA3DGWMLUCT2AO75E.JPG?focal=1379%2C519&auth=300a68e1bf385522ab732b98955606a6bac3ef93f75dd6c63f627ef137443b9f&width=630&height=331","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-220641","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\/220641"}],"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=220641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220645,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220641\/revisions\/220645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}