Former Intel CEO, Pat Gelsinger becomes executive chairman of a 'Technology Platform Connecting the Faith Ecosystem' to work on Christian AI using DeepSeek

Intel CEO, Pat Gelsinger, with a 18A SRAM test wafer — (Image credit: Intel)

The former CEO of Intel, Pat Gelsinger, has just announced his next step in the technology space. Gelsinger's retirement from Intel last year was big news. After cutting his teeth at the company as an engineer, he was midway through leading Intel through its planned recovery campaign as CEO when he broke the news. As Tom's Hardware reports, now Gelsinger is back in the game, this time in charge of product development as executive chair and head of technology at Gloo.

We're not talking about that awesome gun from Prey. Gloo is a United States-based Christian faith-based technology company. It focuses on developing software suites for Church use with value-aligned AI, presumably as well as praying their products work. Essentially it's trying to be the Microsoft Office of the ministry, spreading the good Word.doc.

Gelsinger's first big task at the company is to spearhead the development of vertical industry clouds for faith and advanced values-aligned AI. From his earlier comments, it's likely this will use DeepSeek, the Chinese-owned AI that Open AI was upset with over stealing its stolen data. Gelsinger has praised the platform for its affordability over Open AI. This is despite neither doing a great job at building a gaming computer when we last asked.

It's unlikely most of us will ever need to use Gloo's niche software, let alone any of its AI-powered tools but it does have me curious. We've shown AI can have clear bias depending on the data it was trained by, in that way it's as fallible and human as we are. Training one on the ideals of one faith or another feels like it could be a fast track to the singularity. If we start having AI's trained on religion I don't think we can be too surprised when one goes Old Testament on us.

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