Barger describes a team inside his organization that wanted an AI counseling bot because they had no human counselors. He turned them down because the organization's AI charter had already ruled out handing pastoral care to an algorithm.
…coping with. Those three speakers are Don Barger from the International Mission Board, Mark Lay from Nobilis, and Darren Taillie from AeroCorps Technologies. Next week, I will be back in the usual format with a guest speaker. But in the meantime, I hope you enjoy these three. Thank you very much.
…International Mission Board. He spent a lot of years in Latin America and different parts of the world with really deploying strategies rooted in orality and storytelling. He's going to be talking about building AI trust, what we said yes to and what we didn't. So welcome, Don Barger from the IMB.
Appreciate it. Yeah, so I've known Dan for a while. The first time I met Dan was at a much smaller meeting than this that he was actually leading. Again, another meeting he was leading about AI. And at that meeting, I was the dumbest person at that meeting. It was hands down. Like I walked in, I'm like, I don't think I knew what I was coming to. And I could say that if it hadn't been for Dan at that meeting and then some other meetings that we met at, and we kind of sketched out some stuff in a hotel in London in a lobby. And next thing you know, we are really doing a lot of crazy stuff. So, you know, every organization that's building AI eventually runs into questions about, should we be doing this? And so that's what I want to share with you today, kind of the journey that I've been on, who I am, the oddness that I am the one that's speaking to here. I'm not your typical AI presenter. Normally, you would have somebody that has a degree in computer science or data science or physics. And I will tell you that I have an…
you so much, Donnie. That was a great start to things. I can attest to the fact that, well, one, Donnie is on a lot of flights, more than I can imagine. But every time there is a flight, I get a cool message like, hey, check out what I built, which is really exciting. So that was a great way to…
Thank you. I really love the leash concept. It's amazing. And as a CIO, I want to take it up on another level. I have four decisions that I'd like to go through. And it really starts with when I talk to fellow CIOs and CTOs, we all say AI is moving
at the speed of light. Every time we turn around, it's different. It's evolving. I meet with a vendor one month, their pitch is different the next month. The features, they're all better, but they're different. And so, from a CIO perspective, that's really difficult to manage. And I think it's…