Earlier this year, hundreds of chief executives and civil society leaders joined over 60 heads of state who gathered in the Swiss enclave of Davos for the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting. This year the theme was “Collaboration for the Intelligent Age,” and while the speeches of anti-globalist figures like Argentinian President Javier Milei and President Donald Trump might have been the most watched aspects of the meeting, there was something far more unexpected that took place. The Davos leadership convened an unusual group for the first time. They invited a handful of global religious leaders as full participants in the annual meeting, and among the three urgent issues they were asked to focus on was rebuilding trust in the age of artificial intelligence.
This is because the age of artificial intelligence is emerging at a moment when religion itself is on the ascendancy on multiple fronts throughout the entire world. According to Pew Research, by 2050 only 13 percent of the world will be religiously unaffiliated. This is happening at a time in which religious affiliation is growing the most in countries where the population is increasing, amid a prevailing global trend of declining fertility rates.
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