Belief in the Future

Technology and religion sometimes seem like oil and water, but they've been crossing paths for centuries and aren't going to stop. Hosted by DZ Kalman.

A next-gen religious chatbot (w/Zohar Atkins)

July 3, 2026

Meet Yochai, a chatbot designed for engaging with traditional Jewish texts - rather than just getting answers to Jewish questions.

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Islam and AI (w/Waleed Kadous)

June 26, 2026

How the technology is shaping not only Islamic scholarship but also value systems and real world politics.

Belief in the Future

The image of God in the age of AI (w/Tomer Perisco)

The religious belief that humans are made in God’s image offers ancient wisdom to regulate AI, reminding us to preserve humanity’s unique, sacred status at all costs.

Belief in the Future

The Morman Way on AI

There is more than one type of religious approach to artificial intelligence. DZ Kalman talks with Elder Gerrit Gong about the Morman orientation to AI.

Pope Leo XIV speaks during the presentation of his first encyclical, "Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence," at the Vatican, May 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Belief in the Future

A Catholic and a Jew read the Pope’s AI encyclical together

DZ Kalman talks with Brian Green about what Magnifica Humanitas says, why it was written this way, and its likely impact.

Belief in the Future

What Could Go Right?

A discussion with Kevin Kelly, founder of WIRED Magazine, about technological skepticism, the AI identity crisis, religion and the Amish.