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Collecting and Using Personal Information

Wel­come to Wycliffe.​net. We ap­pre­ci­ate your in­ter­est in us. This site is "owned" by a num­ber of or­ga­ni­za­tions, but the Wycliffe Global Al­liance has the le­gal re­spon­si­bil­ity for the site.

When you browse this site or con­tact us via this site, we will not col­lect per­sonal in­for­ma­tion about you un­less you pro­vide that in­for­ma­tion vol­un­tar­ily. If you sup­ply your postal or email ad­dress, you will re­ceive only the in­for­ma­tion for which you pro­vided the address.

Where re­quired, per­sonal in­for­ma­tion may be for­warded to the site's part­ner or­ga­ni­za­tions in or­der to pro­vide a re­sponse to your re­quest or comments.

If you pro­vide non-pub­lic per­sonal in­for­ma­tion (such as a name, ad­dress, email ad­dress or tele­phone num­ber) via this site, Wycliffe Global Al­liance will only use such in­for­ma­tion for the pur­pose stated on the page where it is collected.

Wycliffe Global Al­liance does not send un­so­licited or "spam" email and does not sell, rent, or trade its email lists to third parties.

In all cases, we will dis­close in­for­ma­tion con­sis­tent with ap­plic­a­ble laws and reg­u­la­tions if required.

Your Email

We wel­come your com­ments or ques­tions about this web­site and have pro­vided email boxes for that purpose.

Please re­mem­ber that all email has the pos­si­bil­ity of be­ing in­ter­cepted by other In­ter­net users, with­out your knowl­edge and per­mis­sion. For that rea­son, to pro­tect your pri­vacy, please do not use email to com­mu­ni­cate in­for­ma­tion to us that you con­sider confidential.

Ownership and Use of Information on the Site

Ar­ti­cles and data on this site may be down­loaded or copied free of charge and reused or dis­trib­uted as re­quired, pro­vid­ing it is done so in a man­ner that does not dis­par­age or dis­credit Wycliffe or any of the other part­ner or­ga­ni­za­tions on this site. It is gen­er­ally best to quote the source for any ar­ti­cle, data or in­for­ma­tion when tak­ing it from a website.

Please do not down­load and use the Wycliffe Global Al­liance logo, or those of other part­ners, with­out permission.

Ar­ti­cles or in­for­ma­tion pro­vided on our site where Wycliffe Global Al­liance is not the orig­i­nal provider should be rec­og­nized as be­long­ing to other part­ners or sources. Please con­tact the orig­i­nal own­ers/providers if you wish to use the ar­ti­cles or in­for­ma­tion that do not be­long to Wycliffe.

Al­though Wycliffe Global Al­liance at­tempts to en­sure the in­tegrity and ac­cu­rate­ness of the site, we can­not guar­an­tee ac­cu­racy of the site. It is pos­si­ble that the site could in­clude ty­po­graph­i­cal er­rors, in­ac­cu­ra­cies, or other er­rors and that unau­tho­rized ad­di­tions, dele­tions, and al­ter­ations could be made to the site by third par­ties. In the event that an in­ac­cu­racy oc­curs, please in­form us so that it can be corrected.

Other Information: e.g. "Cookies" and "log files"

You should also be aware that when you visit our web­site, we col­lect cer­tain in­for­ma­tion that does not iden­tify you per­son­ally, but pro­vides us with "us­age data," such as the num­ber of vis­i­tors we re­ceive or what pages are vis­ited most of­ten. This data helps us to an­a­lyze and im­prove the use­ful­ness of the in­for­ma­tion we pro­vide at these websites.

Like most web­site own­ers, we may use what is known as "cookie" tech­nol­ogy. A "cookie" is an el­e­ment of data that a web­site can send to your browser when you con­nect to that web­site. It is not a com­puter pro­gram and has no abil­ity to read data re­sid­ing on your com­puter or in­struct it to per­form any step or func­tion. By as­sign­ing a unique data el­e­ment to each vis­i­tor, the web­site is able to rec­og­nize re­peat users, track us­age pat­terns and bet­ter serve you when you re­turn to that site. The cookie does not ex­tract other per­sonal in­for­ma­tion about you, such as your name or address.

There are two main kinds of cook­ies: ses­sion cook­ies and per­sis­tent cook­ies. Ses­sion cook­ies are deleted from your com­puter when you close your browser, whereas per­sis­tent cook­ies re­main stored on your com­puter un­til deleted, or un­til they reach their ex­piry date.

Most browsers al­low you to refuse to ac­cept cook­ies. In In­ter­net Ex­plorer, you can refuse all cook­ies by click­ing "Tools", "In­ter­net Op­tions", "Pri­vacy", and se­lect­ing "Block all cook­ies" us­ing the slid­ing se­lec­tor. In Fire­fox, you can ad­just your cook­ies set­tings by click­ing "Tools", "Op­tions" and "Pri­vacy". Block­ing cook­ies may have a neg­a­tive im­pact upon the us­abil­ity of some websites.

Log Files: We use IP ad­dresses to an­a­lyze trends, ad­min­is­ter the site, track users' move­ments and gather broad de­mo­graphic in­for­ma­tion for ag­gre­gate use. IP ad­dresses are not linked to per­son­ally iden­ti­fi­able information.

We will share ag­gre­gated de­mo­graphic in­for­ma­tion with our part­ners and af­fil­i­ates from time to time. This is not linked to any per­sonal in­for­ma­tion that can iden­tify any in­di­vid­ual person.

Links

Wycliffe.​net con­tains links to other web­sites. These links are in­cluded to pro­vide you with other rel­e­vant resources.

A link to a doc­u­ment or site other than those in­cluded within Wycliffe.​net do­main does not nec­es­sar­ily im­ply that the Wycliffe Global Alliance

  • endorses the organization(s) or person(s) providing them,
  • agrees with the ideas expressed, or
  • attests to the correctness, factuality, appropriateness, or legality of the contents.

The Wycliffe Global Al­liance is also not re­spon­si­ble for the pri­vacy poli­cies or prac­tices of these websites.

Changes to This Statement

Wycliffe Global Al­liance may change this State­ment from time to time; when up­dates are made, the Pri­vacy Pol­icy ver­sion date (lo­cated at the bot­tom of this Pol­icy) will also be up­dated to re­flect that a re­vi­sion oc­curred. We en­cour­age you to pe­ri­od­i­cally reread this Pol­icy to see if there have been any changes that may af­fect you. This State­ment is not in­tended to and does not cre­ate any con­trac­tual or other le­gal rights in or on be­half of any party.

If you have any ques­tions or con­cerns re­gard­ing our pri­vacy pol­icy, please email info@​wycliffe.​net.

13 Au­gust 2012

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‘We’ve come very far, very fast’

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Tech pioneer: Christians ‘have to show up’ for AI

Silicon Valley pioneer Pat Gelsinger was CEO of Intel Corporation until December 2024. Quickly realising his career in technology was not finished, he joined the faith/tech platform Gloo in early 2025 as the executive chair and head of technology. He is also a general partner at the venture capital firm Playground Global. Gelsinger was instrumental in the development of cloud computing, Wi-Fi, USB and many other everyday technologies. He estimates his work has touched 60 to 70 percent of humanity. Here are highlights of his keynote talk at the 2025 Missional AI Summit. You can watch his entire talk here. Pat Gelsinger (left) is interviewed onstage by Steele Billings. Both are with Gloo. Watch the full interview here. Is technology good or bad? Technology is neither good nor bad. It’s neutral. It can be used for good. It can be used for bad. … If you think back to the Roman roads, why did Christ come when he came? I’ll argue the Pax Romana and the Roman roads. … The greatest technology of the day was the Roman road system. It was used so the Word could go out. Historical example I will argue Martin Luther was the most significant figure of the last thousand years. And what did he do? He used the greatest piece of technology available at the day, the Gutenberg printing press. He created Bibles. … He broke, essentially, the monopoly on the Bible translations …. He ushered in education. He created the systems that led to the Renaissance. That’s a little punk monk who only wanted to get an audience with the pope because he thought he had a few theological errors. I’ll argue (Luther was) the most significant figure of the last thousand years, using technology to improve the lives of every human that he touched at the time. How today compares to the dawn of the internet AI is more important. AI will be more significant. AI will be more dramatic. … This is now incredibly useful, and we’re going to see AI become just like the internet, where every single interaction will be infused with AI capabilities.  In the 75-year-or-so history of computing, we humans have been adapting to the computer. … With AI, computers adapt to us. We talk to them. They hear us. They see us for the first time. And now they are becoming a user interface that fits with humanity. And for this and so many other reasons that every technology has been building on the prior technology, AI will unquestionably be the biggest of these waves, more impactful even than the internet was. On the need for AI development to be open-source It is so critical because we’re embedding knowledge, embedding values, embedding understanding into those underlying models, large language models and every aspect that happens. It must be open, and this is part of what I think is critical about us being together here today. We need to be creating trusted, open, useful AI that we can build humanity on.  On the need for Christians to help build AI systems We have to show up as the faith community to be influencing those outcomes, because remember what happened in the social media. We didn’t show up, and look at what we got. So are we going to miss this opportunity for something that’s far more important than social networking with AI? Where it truly in the models embeds every aspect of human history and values into it? We have to show up, team. What we do with large language models is far more important because truly we are choosing how we embody knowledge of all time into those underlying models. They need to be open. They need to be trusted. What Christians must bring to the process If we’re going to show up to influence AI broadly, we have to show up with good engineering, good data, good understanding, good frameworks. How do you measure things like ‘Is that leading to better character? Is that leading to better relationships? Is that creating better vocational outcomes? Is that a valid view of a spiritual perspective?’ We need good underlying data associated with each one of these. And for that we’re actively involved. We’re driving to create that underlying data set. Because we need to show up with good data if we’re going to influence how AI is created. How should this work? For the AI systems we need to create good benchmarks. If I ask about God, does it give me a good answer or not? If I ask about relationships with my children, does it give me good answers? We need to create the corpus of data to give good answers to those questions. And, armed with that good data, we need to show up to influence the total landscape of AI. We want to benchmark OpenAI. We’re going to benchmark Gemini. We’re going to benchmark Claude. We’re going to benchmark Copilot.  This is what we’re going to do at Gloo, but we want to be part of a broader community in that discussion so that we’re influential in creating flourishing AI. Technology is a force for good. AI that truly embeds the values that we care about, that we want to honour, that we want to be representing into the future and benchmarking across all of them.   Oh his role with Gloo We are going to change the landscape of the faith community and its role in shaping this most critical technology, AI, for faith and flourishing. That’s what we’re going to do at Gloo and we need all of your help and partnership to do so because if we don’t hang together, we’re not going to influence the outcome, right? ‘Here am I, Lord’ I don’t think I’m done. … You and I both need to come to the same position like Isaiah did. Here am I, Lord. Send me. Send me. Send us. That we can be shaping technology as a force for good. That we could grab this moment in time. This is the greatest time to live in human history. We’re going to solve diseases. We’re going to improve lives. We’re going to educate every person in poverty. We are going to solve climate issues. We are going to be using these technologies to improve the lives of every human on the planet. We are going to shape technology as a force for good. Here am I, Lord. Send me. ••• Story: Jim Killam, Wycliffe Global Alliance Translated with ChatGPT. How was the translation accuracy? Let us know at info@wycliffe.net. Alliance organisations are welcome to download and use images from this series.  

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