Is there an Islamic approach to AI?

Religious engagement with AI has largely been dominated by Christian voices. That’s understandable: the AI conversation is centered in the United States, and many Christian traditions possess highly centralized institutions capable of producing coordinated responses. Islam presents a different case. With more than a billion adherents spread across vastly different societies—and no central authority capable of speaking for all Muslims—the Islamic response to AI is emerging in a decentralized fashion. Yet the stakes are enormous. AI will affect Muslim-majority societies just as profoundly as anywhere else, raising questions about religious authority, economic justice, warfare, community, and cultural sovereignty. To explore these issues, I spoke with Waleed Kadous. A longtime AI researcher who has worked at Google, Uber, Canva, and Anyscale, Kadous has also spent decades studying Islam. Today, he’s one of the leading voices working at the intersection of faith and artificial intelligence. https://www.jellomenorah.com/p/where-... This is an episode of the Belief in the Future podcast. Subscribe to the audio: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3kSs... Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...