“I’ve seen myself as a workplace minister for decades and have been very active in philanthropies and other ministries,” said Gelsinger, “and really Gloo is the perfect combination of those two, bringing together the faith and the technology.”
“There couldn’t be a better place to bring those two pillars of my life together,” he said.
“I think everybody who is in the workplace has a responsibility to show up as their whole self,” Gelsinger explained. “And for me, my faith is a critical part of what I am, and thus I show up as a Christian leader.”
“Even in secular settings,” he said, “are your values still visible? Do you honor that? Do you use that platform fully for what God has enabled? And that has governed my life.” Gelsinger said he has faced challenges but also had “numerous opportunities” as a business leader to use his influence for good, such as in the founding of Transforming the Bay With Christ.
Gelsinger sees part of his role as a business leader to encourage “other business leaders of faith to step up as well.”
Pat Gelsinger: AI Is the ‘Great Technological Shift of Our Time’
Pat Gelsinger is taking on his expanded role at Gloo during a “unique time in technology.”
“We view AI as the great technological shift of our time,” he said. “It’ll be like the internet was 25 years ago.” That being the case, the church has a unique opportunity to shape the development of artificial intelligence.
“If a church would stand up today and say, ‘Oh, I’m not going to be on the internet’—particularly post-COVID—you’d say, ‘Well, that’s silly. All of your people are on the internet. How do you communicate with them? How do you connect with them?’” Gelsinger said.
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Right now, AI is in the early stages of its development, “but over the next two decades, it will become as pervasive as the internet was.”
“The impact of AI is going to be enormous,” Gelsinger said, and it is important that AI is “shaped as a force for good,” a task that will “be a key aspect of my expanded role.”
