Mr Jesus Screening & Community Conversation: Exploring AI, religion, and what it means to be human

We invite you to join us for a lively conversation and short film screening on the social and spiritual  implications of artificial intelligence. We’ll explore the profoundly human questions about faith and purpose, and what happens when technology gets involved. We’ll consider how interdisciplinary, intergenerational and interfaith conversations create radical possibility for future generations.

Featuring:

Donna Romer, VP Product Development, Spotify and  IBM Watson AI Platform, serial startup founder

Dr. Melanie Rieback, CEO/Co-founder of Radically Open Security (the world's first not-for-profit computer security company), and "Post Growth" startup incubator Nonprofit Ventures

Sara M. Watson, God(m)other, technology critic, independent analyst, and writer

Mara Zepeda, God(m)other and co-founder of Zebras Unite and the Electric Web

About Mr Jesus: Mr Jesus is a sharp, satirical TV pilot about a down-on-his-luck actor who wakes up one morning to discover that his image has been stolen to make a GenAI Jesus, and now everyone believes he’s the Second Coming. In a time when we're told that AI's takeover is inevitable, we, as artists, are deeply interested in how we leverage our agency. We can see that AI's current trajectory is harming our workforce, our planet, and our ability to actually source truth - and its creators and stewards have utterly shirked responsibility for making it safe. It can feel so dire we almost have to laugh…and use that space to figure out what we will do next. We live in an age where people form parasocial relationships with chatbots, where AI can generate sermons indistinguishable from the real thing, and where the line between authentic and artificial gets blurrier every day. Mr Jesus takes this reality and pushes it to its emotional, logical, and hilarious extreme.

About (m)otherboard: (m)otherboard is a tech justice collective nurturing human agency, dignity, and care through experiments in storytelling, gathering, and participatory governance. We believe the table is our most valuable technology.