Should AI and Christianity Mix? Pat Gelsinger and Gloo Holdings Sure Think So
The ex-Intel CEO is helping lead a fast-growing company’s efforts to sell AI to Christian companies and Christian-inspired AI to everyone.
Last year, Pat Gelsinger found himself pondering a thorny, existential question: What should he do with his life after Intel?
The chipmaker had unceremoniously ousted him in December 2024, and shortly after, his wife Linda gave him a firm nudge. “You’re not done yet,” she told him, as Gelsinger recalls it. So Gelsinger considered roles in government and private equity. Neither seemed right. Instead, he decided to embark on an unusual crusade by taking up a post as executive chairman and head of technology at Gloo Holdings Inc., a Boulder, Colo.-based company that sells AI products and other software. He’s the person responsible for developing the tech that the publicly traded company hopes to sell to every church, congregation and Christian-minded company it possibly can.
“This genie isn’t going back in the bottle,” said Gelsinger, 65. “The AI models get embedded into everything going forward.” And as a result, “we need those to be good,” he said—as in, morally good, not just good, sophisticated pieces of software.
“They need to reflect who we are as a people, as humans—as creations in God’s image,” Gelsinger said.