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About Gretchen

Gretchen Huizinga is a speaker, writer, researcher, and podcaster who explores the ethical implications of artificial intelligence from a biblical perspective. She spends a great deal of time camped out at the intersection of math and morality.

 

As host of the Microsoft Research Podcast from 2017 to 2025, Gretchen had a front row seat as AI emerged from the warm-up act to the headliner in little less than a decade. During that time, she got involved in a Seattle-based organization called AI and Faith. She served on its board from 1 B.C. (Before Covid) and was a research fellow there until 2025. In 2022, Gretchen completed a PhD at the University of Washington with a dissertation titled Righteous AI: The Christian voice in the ethical AI conversation. Currently, she speaks nationally and internationally on AI ethics and the Christian gospel.

 

Gretchen hikes a lot and prays even more. She loves good movies and great books. The Bible is her favorite. Her last name is Dutch and while she does have a preferred pronunciation, it invariably confounds those who introduce her. For the record, it’s hugh-ZINGA. Gretchen lives in the Seattle area with her husband (the Dutch one), has an amazing adult daughter, and wears better shoes than academia demands, or a podcast warrants.

Education:

  • Master of Mass Communication,
  • Master of Arts, Learning Sciences and Human Development
  • PhD, AI and Christian Ethics

Affiliations:

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  • Founding member AI and Faith

  • Scholars Advisory Council, American Bible Society

  • Technology Advisory Board, Center for Technology, Creativity and Moral Imagination, Westmont College

  • Member, Oxford Collaboration on Theology and Artificial Intelligence, Oxford University

What people are saying...

As a Christian, if you’re an ethicist, you can go in and contribute [to AI] there and that’s very important indeed. You have at this weekend, Gretchen Huizinga, who’s working on that very thing, and her work is very important.

Dr. John Lennox

Gretchen is a delightful combination of insight, clarity, and humour. We are living in a culture that is advancing technologically so quickly that our laws and ethics can’t keep up. In such a setting, Gretchen’s voice is timely, incisive, and—best of all—uncompromisingly Christian.

Andy Steiger, PhD

Thank you for that fabulous keynote you delivered at the Apologetics Canada Theology of Technology conference. I loved it.

Conference Attendee

For my first Christian conference, this one was fire…Gretchen needs to be a staple on the AC roster, she was cooking, those jokes were wild!!

Conference Attendee

Gretchen Huizinga brings a uniquely Christian voice to the global conversation on artificial intelligence, challenging both technologists and ethicists to consider how a biblical worldview reshapes our understanding of what AI is—and what it is for. With intellectual rigor, spiritual depth, and a gift for clear, compelling communication, she speaks and writes about “righteous AI” in a way that is both thought-provoking and profoundly hopeful.

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