Overview
- Elder Gerrit W. Gong announced the Faith and Ethics AI Evaluation at the Rome Summit on Ethics and Artificial Intelligence in Vatican City.
- BYU computer scientists are collaborating with peers at Baylor, Notre Dame and Yeshiva as an initial multifaith, multi‑university team.
- The group has begun prototyping and defined seven early test categories, including accuracy, child appropriateness, pluralism awareness and human centering.
- Organizers said they are engaging socially responsible frontier‑model AI companies and invited additional universities and faith traditions to join.
- Speakers warned about AI‑enabled harms such as deepfakes, AI ‘adult companions,’ pornography and gambling, urging independent, transparent and iterative audits to counter “made‑to‑order” misinformation.