Technology Companies Meet Religious Representatives to Evolve AI Code

May

2026

As AI systems become more influential in shaping information, decisions, and public discourse, the debate around use of AI is increasingly moving beyond technical safety into questions of ethics, values, and accountability. While AI systems can code, generate images, solve complex calculations, and even automate workflows, it generates responses based on patterns in data. AI struggles with understanding morality. That means AI can misstate facts, or even produce convincing but incorrect references especially on religious matters. There are also concerns around AI’s misuse, including generation of deepfakes and producing misleading content when systems are prompted maliciously. Against this backdrop, executives from technology companies OpenAI and Anthropic recently met religion representatives from the Sikh Coalition, Hindu Temple Society of North America, the Baha’i International Community, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as part of a Faith-AI Covenant roundtable. The event was organized by the Geneva-based Interfaith Alliance for Safer Communities, an organization that works on issues of extremism, radicalization and human trafficking. Participants explored the idea that AI cannot independently distinguish right from wrong. The meeting focused on how AI can be developed in line with human values and moral responsibility. As AI becomes more embedded in daily life, the central challenge is shifting from 'what can AI do?' to 'what should AI do, and who decides?' Companies like Anthropic and Google DeepMind are hiring philosophers and ethics researchers to work on aligning AI systems with human values. The efforts compliment the apex Sikh management body Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) constituting a sub-committee earlier in 2026 to review and suggest ways to check the growing misuse of AI to distort the history and teachings of the Sikh religion. Upon receiving complaints regarding altered text, misinformation, SGPC had written to ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Grok, Gemini AI, Meta, Google, VEO 3, Descript, Runway ML, Pictory, Magisto, InVideo, DALL·E 2, MidJourney and DeepAI, among others. SGPC president Harjinder Singh Dhami had said in this era of technology, distorted depictions of Sikh Gurus and historical narratives through AI-generated content, especially altered images, have deeply hurt the sentiments of the Sikh community (earlier coverage).