Former Intel CEO Leads Christian AI Firm Gloo

AI is often described as an all‑knowing oracle, but it is fundamentally a pattern‑matching system that lacks semantic understanding, empathy, and the ability to address human meaning, and its statistical “average” can suppress outlier creativity and moral judgment. At the same time, companies are experimenting with AI as a creative amplifier—for example, luxury label Monse partnered with Intel to power AI‑generated video art for a runway backdrop—illustrating cross‑industry uses of the technology. Former Intel CEO Patrick Gelsinger has pivoted to Gloo, which has raised sizable funding to build chatbots and ministry tools that explicitly embed Christian values into AI products and to exert cultural and political influence in Silicon Valley and Washington. Gloo remains much smaller in scale than mainstream consumer AI platforms. Critics warn that policy and product responses—from bans on minors' access and biometric age checks to proposals forcing bots to declare “I am not human”—risk creating surveillance, bias, and ritualized control rather than genuine safety, underscoring the need for public debate about governance, environmental and labor impacts, and the values encoded into AI.