AI and Faith – Chaplaincy, Care & AI Symposium

Join us for a half day of discussion on the intersection of artificial intelligence, chaplaincy, and healthcare. As technology reshapes clinical environments, chaplaincy and spiritual care leaders have a unique opportunity to help guide how innovation is integrated with compassion, ethics, and human dignity. Experts will offer their critical insights into what is known about AI, chaplaincy, and healthcare, and what needs continued exploration.

During this session, we will have a presentation on the current landscape of these themes, presented by David Fleenor, a certified chaplain, clinical pastoral educator, priest, and author of “Transforming Healthcare Chaplaincy Education.” Additionally, Rabbi Dr. Jason Weiner of the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center will moderate the discussion between Tracy Trothen, Professor of Ethics at Queen’s University and author of Understanding Religion and Artificial Intelligence: Meaning-Making in the Digital Age and C. Estelle Smith, Professor of Computer Science at the Colorado School of Mines and designer of computational spiritual support frameworks. They will assess the challenges and opportunities artificial intelligence offers in this field, exploring if artificial intelligence is good for chaplaincy and how it will affect people. We will also provide the opportunity for the audience to explore these questions themselves through structured discussions and then a final reflection.