Stephen Sizer Tribunal, Migrant Crisis, and Artificial Intelligence

What should we take away from the Stephen Sizer Tribunal? What is the church's role in the migrant crisis? Can a chat bot write a sermon? In this episode, Phil Topham, Adrian Reynolds, and John Stevens discuss some of the stories in the news over the past few weeks. 00:00 - Introduction 00:17 - Interacting with artificial intelligence 06:38 - The migrant crisis 11:44 - The role of churches in caring for migrants 15:56 - The Stephen Sizer Tribunal findings 21:20 - How the world has marginalised Jewish people 24:41 - Compassion in news reporting You can watch a video of this episode and access further resources for church leaders on the FIEC website. Resources mentioned in this episode ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue (openai.com) Tribunal Determination (Sizer) 6 December 2022 (PDF on churchofengland.org) Eastern European Churches, Abuse in the SBC, and the Fear of Marriage (fiec.org.uk) Sizer Tribunal: 'Anti-Semitic Behaviour,' 'Conduct Unbecoming' & 'Implausible and Untrue' Account (e-n.org.uk) Anti-Semitism Among Us Today (e-n.org.uk) BBC News reader becomes emotional upon learning of the death of the three boys who fell into the icy lake at Solihull (twitter.com) About In:Dependence: In:Dependence is FIEC’s official podcast, where you’ll hear teaching and resources for church leaders from the FIEC Ministry Team and guests from FIEC churches and partners. You can access video podcasts by subscribing to the FIEC YouTube channel. About FIEC: We are a fellowship of Independent churches with members of the family across England, Scotland and Wales. Our mission is to see those Independent churches working together with a big vision: to reach Britain for Christ. Being part of FIEC links you to a growing number of Independent evangelical churches and there are now more than 50,000 people who are part of churches affiliated to FIEC. Follow FIEC on social media: Instagram Facebook Twitter