On Thursday 23rd April 2026, The Joint Public Issues Team and the Student Christian Movement partnered to facilitate a webinar exploring the ethical and justice debates around generative AI. How does AI relate to justice? How do we tackle its political and ethical questions such as human rights, job security, and warfare? What is our responsibility as Christians who care about people and planet, living in a digital world? This page is a product of this webinar and a range of resources shared by its contributors and organisers, encouraging Christians to do the work and think critically about AI, faith and justice.
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This page was last updated 1 May 2026.
Watch & listen
Techno–Nihilism and the Human Stakes of AI – Theos Think Tank (10 March 2026)
What if the so–called “AI doomers” are right? Watch Nathan Mladin’s research seminar for The Faraday Institute.
What impact does AI have on faith? – Theos Think Tank (19 September 2024)
Dr Nathan Mladin appears alongside Dr Austin Tiffany, Zeshan Zafar and Nicole Pearson discussing the moral questions raised by artificial intelligence.
‘The Hidden Realities of Artificial Intelligence’ (Podcast), The Cambridge Student (27 October 2024)
Conversation with Annissa La Touche, Cambridge Geography graduate, and Alva Markelius, PhD student and founder of the Cambridge University AI Ethics Society. They discuss the rapidly expanding technology’s repercussions on society for young people, human rights, systemic injustices and the environment.
ChatGPT – In AI We Trust? Nomad podcast (September 2023)
Hosts of Nomad podcast interview non-human guest ChatGPT on its ethical complexities and moral implications for churches and Christians.
Global Justice Now: Resisting Big Tech empires (25 April 2026)
Watch the opening and closing plenaries of this event held at London South Bank University.
Get involved in: Campaigns
An ongoing campaign launched in 2013 which calls for new international law on autonomy in weapons systems to ensure human control in the use of force.
A new activist movement to give ordinary people a say on how AI is implemented.
Get Palantir out of UK public services | Global Justice Now
Sign this petition from Global Justice Now to get Palantir out of all UK public contracts, including the NHS.
Future of Arms campaign on autonomous weapons
JPIT’s Future of Arms project aims to equip Christians and our churches to engage in discussion and advocacy with decision-makers about these vital issues, as we seek to fulfill the Christian vocation to be peacemakers.
Christian organisations & events
An alliance of Christian organisations, respected theologians and innovative technologists to help Christians navigate AI.
A one-day event designed to spark a conversation at the intersection of mission and tech. Details TBA for 2026.
Our Common Future: Advocating for Digital Rights and AI Accountability | World Council of Churches
An ecumenical symposium organised by the WCC which took place in Berlin in April 2026. It aimed to develop a concrete advocacy and capacity-building framework for coordinated and collaborative action towards digital justice.
A community and resource hub for Christian technologists based in Romania developing faith-informed approaches to the ethics of AI.
Hosted at Lambeth Palace in January 2026, co-organised and chaired by Charles Larkin, Director of Research at the Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath, and the Revd Dr Malcolm Brown. Read about it on ART-AI’s website, a UKRI funded Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Accountable, Responsible and Transparent AI.
Theos stimulates the debate about the place of religion in society, challenging and changing ideas through research, commentary and events, including work on digital futures and AI ethics.
Joint Public Issues Team (JPIT)
A partnership of the Baptist Union of Great Britain, the Methodist Church and the United Reformed Church, supporting churches to work for peace and justice by engaging with public policy issues
Student Christian Movement (SCM)
A community of students committed to an inclusive, progressive and radical approach to the Christian faith.
Church resources
Church of Scotland AI Congregational resource series (2022)
Prayers for digital justice – Speaking Life and Justice In the Digital Space | World Council of Churches
Read: Articles
Quit ChatGPT: right now! by Rutger Bregman, The Guardian (March 2026)
Historian Rutger Bregman argues that AI giants like ChatGPT could be stopped because of the history of successful consumer boycotts.
Renewed call for national conversation on AI and the Future of Work | The Church of England (October 2025)
Church of England academics and policy advisers renewed calls for a national conversation on the impact of artificial intelligence on the world of work, in a series of articles for Crucible, the journal of Christian social ethics.
This article follows up on a panel in May 2024 hosted by Cambridge University’s Centre of Governance and Human Rights, highlighting the role of AI in military technologies against civilians, particularly in Gaza. She emphasises the partiality of AI in reinforcing hierarchies of oppression, state sovereignty and crackdown on public protest.
AI, Justice, and Creation Care: An update from the AI Working Group – The Methodist Church (September 2025)
A summary of the Methodist Church’s Artificial Intelligence Working Group’s meeting in September 2025. It highlights the mainstream nature of AI conversation, and the overlap with the Methodist Church’s commitment to ‘justice, care for creation, and human flourishing’. Featuring research presented by Izzy-May Solomon.
The Baptist Union of Great Britain: The Church is taking on AI, here’s how (November 2023)
A piece by Chris Goswami for Baptist Times, written as the UK Government hosted the world’s first Global AI Safety Summit in 2023. It balances the positives and negatives of AI use in church spaces, and highlights the important work of the AI-Christian Partnership.
Airstrikes by AI: who is accountable? – Joint Public Issues Team (March 2026)
Written by Adam Aucock for the JPIT blog. He highlights the use of technology in warfare in the Middle East, draws on past campaigns on banning autonomous weapons, and includes a prayer.
Read: Books
Kester Brewin, God-like: a 500-Year History of Artificial Intelligence in Myths, Machines and Monsters
A historical analysis of why humans are fascinated by machines and technologies, and what we can do with them.
Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler, The Anatomy of an AI System
Shows that AI is not an abstract or immaterial system, but one rooted in extraction, labour, energy use, logistics, and power.
Nello Cristianini, The Shortcut: Why Intelligent Machines Do Not Think Like Us
A strong accessible introduction for non-specialists trying to understand what AI is and isn’t.
Shannon Vallor, The AI Mirror
Especially useful on how AI reflects and reshapes human values, institutions, and social practices.
Kate Crawford, Atlas of AI
Important for understanding the material and political dimensions of AI, including labour, resources, data extraction, and power.
Ruha Benjamin, Race After Technology
Very useful on bias, inequality, and the myth of technological neutrality.
Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The fight for a human future at the new frontier of power
Read: Reports and policy documents
Church of Scotland Artificial Intelligence Report (2021)
Rome Call for AI Ethics
Useful as a concise and accessible values-based statement on AI ethics.
AI Now Institute reports
Helpful for accessible policy-oriented material
UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
International ethics framework.
The Alan Turing Institute’s ethics and governance resources
Useful for UK-facing material on responsible AI.
The Vatican’s reflections on AI and human wisdom
Helpful for theological reflection on the difference between machine capability and human wisdom. Antiqua et nova. Note on the Relationship Between Artificial Intelligence and Human Intelligence (28 January 2025)
AI and the Afterlife: From Digital Mourning to Mind Uploading (Theos, 2024) by Nathan Mladin
Data and Dignity: Why Privacy Matters in the Digital Age (Theos, 2022) by Nathan Mladin