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About Gretchen

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

 

Professionally, she has worked as a podcast host for Microsoft Research since 2017 and has had a front row seat as AI has emerged from the warm-up act to the headliner in little less than a decade. At the same time, she got involved in a Seattle-based organization called AI and Faith and has served on its board since 1 B.C. (Before Covid). She has been a research fellow there since 2022 and that same year, she completed a PhD at the University of Washington with a dissertation titled Righteous AI: The Christian voice in the ethical AI conversation. In 2024, Gretchen was a visiting fellow at the Lanier Theological Library in Oxford, UK, working alongside notable scholars in the field of AI and Christian theology, including Lanier’s Distinguished Research Fellow, Dr. John Lennox. Gretchen speaks nationally and internationally on Righteous AI and is part of several advisory boards tasked with researching new paradigms for education and Christian discipleship in the age of generative AI.

 

Personally, 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:

  • Research Fellow, AI and Faith

  • Scholars Advisory Council, Faith and Liberty Initiative, American Bible Society

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

  • Contributing scholar, Educating Humans in the Age of AI, Council for Christian Colleges and Universities

  • 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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