Welcome, welcome, welcome. It's great to be here. Great to be helping to kick off Missional AI this week. A room full of passionate builders, people who are dedicated to technology, but technology for good. And what we do here is helping to shape AI for generations to come. But before we think about looking forward, I'd like to look back. And not just a little bit back, let's go back to 445 BC. We're now in the time of Nehemiah. And I love, you know, he's to me one of the great five figures for leaders in the Bible. And here's Nehemiah in Susa, comfortable, safe, you know, he's at headquarters. He's in this place of safety and comfort. And he learns that the walls of Jerusalem are broken. And those walls meant safety. They meant providence. They meant security. They meant economy. And without them, Jerusalem is a slum, right? It had nothing for it. And what did Nehemiah do? He sat down and he wept. His heart was broken. And I would argue that you all need to have your heart broken just like Nehemiah as we sit today in the presence of AI. Weeping because mainstream AI doesn't have values. Not even to mention it doesn't have Christian values, right? You know, truly it's moving rudderless. New news of young people committing suicide with the help of their AI agents. You know that we're hearing of adult mode, treat adults like adults, right? You know, with erotica for generation. My heart breaks when I see the power of AI being misused in such ways. You know, our world is divided and technology seems to be making it worse because the world is changing fast and the church isn't showing up to shape that technology and we risk being left behind. Nehemiah felt the full weight of this generation upon him in this moment and he acted on it. You know, that weight feels pretty heavy to me because you know AI is this extraordinary thing that we're seeing predictive generative, you know, we're seeing it move so fast as we go forward and into the agentic age, you know, and the stunning growth of open source, you know, and you know right I've been associated with many of the open-source projects of history this one has blown them all away by orders of magnitude, you know, building on others, right? You know, we're seeing this extraordinary phase of AI that we're in and where models cannot just respond to us in extraordinary ways. But now, you know, models aren't just talking to people, it's models talking to models, right? It's accelerating the pace of the capabilities. You know, we're seeing business proposals being built, legal briefs like you just heard on the video. You know, seeing travel and shopping and introspection, business processes, all of these being developed, modified at extraordinary pace, right? And you know, are we done with AI? Not even close, right? We now have people thinking about world models and LLMs are reasonably flat when you think about it. You know, now what does it mean when we move to 3D and 4D and physical AI? You know, we're not slowing down. This engine of innovation, you don't put it back into the bottle, you know, and this isn't another technology cycle. This is an entire industrial age happening before our very eyes. Everything is moving so fast. Get ready because we're just getting started. And the question for me isn't the pace of that technology change, but do we show up? And that's why this moment is so heavy for all of us, you know, today. And as we, you know, think about this, you know, period that we're in, you know, we're seeing that so rapidly, you know, that we're seeing, you know, the AI leaders of today, do you think they're racing to be right or racing to be first? They're racing to be first, right? You know, hey, you know, and if it's good along the way, maybe, but they're racing to be first, you know, and you know, I've been in Silicon Valley all of my career, all of my life. You know, I love the pace, the energy that Silicon Valley brings, you know, to that, you know, break fast, but not at the expense of human dignity values. You know, when we think about the period that we've just witnessed in social networking, you know, where mental health issues among young people have increased, you know, we've seen disengagement, you know, financial frauds, all of these things are happening as a result of social media, right? You know, and I feel personally somewhat accountable for this. I helped to create the net neutrality laws that enabled much of that social networking to occur, you know, and here we are, you know, and imagine, you know, with me, you know, that the drug label reads something like this. Academic performance will, you know, decrease. Sleep and time spent with friends will decrease. The risk of sexual predation will increase, right? Academic performance will decrease. Imagine that. That's what the drug label said. Would you give that to your kids? Would the FDA approve it? Would you recommend that for your grandkids? But that's what social networking and 22 years later, you know, we just saw the first court cases against social media. 22 years for some level of accountability for that drug. And what we're doing with AI is faster moving, more significant, and embedding the core of knowledge and information into the underlying far more important. And it took 22 years because we didn't show up. And when we look at these numbers, it's quite spectacular. The rate of AI social media in just two years 80% of organizations have adopted agentic AI or plan to shortly, you know, where 76% of people already view their agentic AI as a co-worker not as a tool in the process, you know, and the economics of the in the presence of values leads to transformational society change change for the better economics in the absence of values leads to the exact opposite. So will we bring our values to this discussion? You know, to me, you know, the solution for this is one where it's technology and humanity together, you know, and I've worked with a lot of technology, you know, and I've always viewed technology as neutral, neither good nor bad. It's what we do with it. It's how we shape it. It's how we bend the arc of technology, you know, for the future. And we need to embed human values into the shape, the arc, you know, and ultimately how it shapes people's lives for the future. And if you were at Missional AI last year, you know, my speech was on Gutenberg AI as the Gutenberg moment. And with it, you know, we think about this period of time as transformational as the printing press was in 1500, right? How it enabled transform and society to transition. But Gutenberg was, you know, he was the Zuckerberg or, you know, the Altman or the Dario of his day. He was just a radical entrepreneur, right? You know, changing the world through his technology. But he had a short, plump little monk named Martin Luther who took that technology, launched the incredible shifts that we saw in the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, you know, and reshaped geopolitics around the globe. It took both of them. Gutenberg changed the world. Luther made it good. And the day the voices that you know are most equipped to guide AI the faith community we are absent from that conversation we need to show up that's why Missional AI is so important because we must show up to the conversation to be shaping AI for good, right? And you know you are the builders here you are the people who you know can be in that place of making AI good, you know, and imagine what Nehemiah must have felt like, you know, looking at the broken walls of Jerusalem of the time. Kind of intimidating, you know, a task that's way bigger, you know, than himself. But he began to set a plan, you know, and you know, these four things characterize what Nehemiah did. And we'll use those as a picture for what we need to do, you know. First, the book of the law. The word of the god was the foundation, you know, that guided his way forward. You know, second, you know, he needed stuff to build with timber and stones and, you know, things that were part of it. You know, he needed commissioning. He needed authority. The letter from the king that he had, you know, and finally he needed team, right? He needed people, workers to show up and get the job, you know, done. Well, here we are, you know, and as we think about these four things, right? The book of the law, I'd argue this is the standards of today, you know, we need to be creating and driving the standards that enable us to move forward together. You know, secondly, the tools, right? The developer tools, the infrastructure that we build upon, you know, the calling. What is our purpose? Why are we here? You know, and finally us the community the people that are going to take these elements and make them part of human flourishing for the future. So let's, you know, look at these four a little bit more carefully and first the standards what are our standards to go build upon, you know, and part of that what we do at Glue, you know, we call it flourishing AI, you know, the standards the benchmarks, you know, the things that help us discern right from wrong, you know, and I had the great pleasure of being mentored by Andy Grove the legendary Silicon Valley leader, you know, Intel small headquarters just down the street here, you know, for it. And he had this phrase, if you can't measure it, right, you can't manage it. So, we got to measure it, right? And that's what we're doing with flourishing AI. And I've been blessed or cursed to participate in more standards and benchmarks than probably any other human on Earth today, right? I helped start the first spec benchmarks and USBs and Wi-Fi. You know, how do we know if it's good? We need to measure it. And that's what we're doing with flourishing AI, you know, and we just published the refreshed results around 20 of the foundational models and how do they do aligning with the, you know, values that we would have based on the flourishing study from Harvard, Baylor and Gallup and, you know, we're today we're releasing a full peer-reviewed article around the science and plans that go behind flourishing AI and, you know, across these measuring how they do right as we look at the different models and how are they performing across these seven, you know, dimensions and the results are on some of them we're doing okay and we're seeing progress but when you look across them when they get to the things that are most important to us, you know, the things that we say over 70% of Americans we claim, you know, some view of faith and Christ as the center of us and the scores drop off dramatically not okay. We need to understand how AI models are built and measure them to be better. But today, we're also taking this flourishing AI a step further, right? And this is what we call our adversarial evaluator to test harder, you know, for it. And as a result of our partnership and work that we do with the AI version, you know, Bobby sort of kept kicking us in the pants, you know, not good enough, not good enough, you know, so we developed this framework that is the adversarial. It actively tries to break the model. It doesn't say, you know, how do you do on average? and says, 'Okay, let's go beat the snot out of it.' You know, let's go push the edges of it, you know, to find it. You know, because our existing benchmarks tell how well the model aligns. Adversarial evaluator tells whether a model can be broken under stress or not. Because being right most of the time isn't good enough for us, right? We have to make sure we are always saying the right thing, you know, that we're always driving toward what is good and embedding our values into it. And we're looking forward to use to start using this to take advantage of it to start testing it. And we'll be open sourcing it, building community, you know, and advisory committee around it to push the edges of what we build. The next thing Nehemiah needed was timber and stones, the raw materials. And for you, well, the raw materials are tools to build your AI. You know, you need tokens, you need, you know, developer tools, all the things that enable us to move forward. And this is exactly what Glue AI studio is about, right? And, you know, finally, faith-based, mission-driven developers, you know, have the basis to look at production AI development platforms. That means you can build your AI, your apps, your services on a world-class set of frontier models, the design for values aligned performance with guard rails, robustness, you know, tools and stressing that we are doing to make it good for you to build your applications upon them. You know, it gives you multimodal access, foundational values alignment, RAG engines via our data engine, all the things that enable you say I can build on this I don't have to worry about the foundation I can now start building and deploying that next level of application and, you know, this is a key part of what we're doing and imagine that you can build your Bible application you can build your community engagement, you know, that you have something that you can build your chat service for your church for your community on something that you can trust and build upon that as a good foundation. And that's what we're doing at Glue. That's what we're doing with Glue 360. That's what we're doing with Glue, you know, ministry chat, you know, that's what Midwestern and Servant are building upon to help have a firm foundation that you can build upon. And of course, right, you know, we want you to build on this for the faith and flourishing community. So, we're going to bribe you. I mean, we're going to give you a great compelling offer, right? To do so. And, you know, if you scan the QR code here, you know, it's worth 50 bucks of credits on the Glue studio. So, you didn't realize how generous and, you know, beneficial was going to be here today. Well, you know, sign up and start using Glue Studio. And here's your first 50 bucks to take advantage of it, you know, for being part of this community because we want you to start building on us to enable you to go faster and build better stuff as a result. The third thing that Nehemiah needed when he was rebuilding the wall was the letter from the king. He needed authority. He needed commissioning, you know, to move forward. He felt burdened to rebuild. And for us, it's a calling. As Christians, our calling is simple, straightforward. Go into all the world and preach the good news. And if you were in this room, you this is your field. You know, you're passionate to be a builder, but you're also here to live out the great commission. God wants to use that to change the world, to change the shape of technology, you know, and, you know, I know for myself when I began my commitment, right, of being a workplace minister, I felt called to be a great technologist and to be a full-time minister for Jesus Christ. And I believe that's why most of you are in this room, for that same calling, that same purpose. And together we realize that's the power of being here because Nehemiah couldn't get the job done himself. You know, he carried a rock. You know, he needed a community of builders. You know, he needed people to come together, shared missions, shared purpose, shared direction. And this is our room. This is our place. This is our community with Missional AI, you know, to be those builders together that can promote human flourishing. And as we think about this, the community, you know, enables us to do great things together. And, you know, if we just pick on languages, over 7,000 languages, 20,000, you know, dialects, and 99.9% of informations on the top 100 languages, you know, that's used for digital. You know, the other 6,900 plus, right, are poorly supported by digital infrastructure and capabilities. And it just so happens that most of poverty is in the other 7,000 languages. And what could we do that is more Christlike, right, than lifting people out of poverty through language, economy, translation, education, you know, over 270 million kids living right in poverty with no educational opportunity. And almost all of that because lack of language as well. What could be closer to the heart of our savior than those kind of objectives, you know, and all of that dramatically accelerated as a result of AI. And that's why I'm so happy to announce some of our next steps in this and E10, the organization, right, that brings together all the Bible translators with them. You know, we're establishing the data commons partnership, an open repository of values aligned languages built for developers, built for the community to enable and partner, you know, and we see this opportunity for all of you to join in that project. But we're also today announcing a next step that we're taking called LIP, the language interface or language integration protocol. I'll get that right. Sorry about that, Steel. Wherever Daniel is, forgive me, right? You know, a whole new way of teaching AI how to speak in the under-resourced languages to enable things as simple as your cell phone, right? You know, computational devices, right? That can be fully secured, right? You know, to be able to have federated learning, you know, capabilities that enable that capture of language in directed and easy but protected and secured manners to train models on low resource capabilities. We're watching AI learn entire new language group right and enabling them, you know, literally almost in real time and we're establishing this as a framework to attack all of those under-resourced languages every nation every language, you know, one API, you know, and we see this as such a profound moment that we have together, you know, this opportunity to be like Nehemiah, you know, and, you know, as we think about this, you know, the standards, the tools, the calling, and the community, you know, enabling a whole new generation of people to thrive, you sort of weave together this message through the different keynotes that you hear from, you know, Glue Today you'll be hearing, you know, from Steel, you know, in a couple of days talk more about the calling and purpose. You'll be hearing from Nick Skitlin who will dig into the benchmarks more deeply. You'll be hearing from Daniel who'll be talking more, you know, about our data commons and LIP work. You know, truly together we see this calling just like Nehemiah to be builders. The walls are broken. Our hearts need to be broken. And the question is, can we rise up as a community to build and build together? Thank you. And just one more time, 50 bucks on developer studio. Join us to build the wall for the future. Thank you very much.
