Patrick Gelsinger, former CEO of the American chip giant Intel, revealed in the middle of this year that leaving Intel was not his own decision, but a decision made by a third party. He expressed deep regret that the company was unable to complete its "IDM 2.0" wafer foundry strategy.
However, he seems to have found a new direction. According to Fortune, Gelsinger is now the CEO of Gloo, focusing on building a "Christian-oriented large language model" in the hope of accelerating the "Second Coming of Christ" through AI, which has sparked discussion.
From chip giants to Shengguang AI
Gelsinger has always considered himself a devout Christian and previously published "Balancing Your Family, Faith & Work," viewing Silicon Valley as a mission field.
After leaving Intel, he chose to join Gloo, a platform that describes itself as "connecting the faith ecosystem." According to its website, the platform serves more than 140,000 religious and nonprofit leaders. Its core products, "Christian Alignment Large Language Model (CALLM)" and "Kingdom Alignment Large Language Model (KALLM)," allow churches to train AI assistants using sermon content to handle pastoral care, discipleship training, and administration.
At a seminar held at Colorado Christian University, Gelsinger referred to AI as the "Gutenberg moment" following the printing press and raised the following questions:
"How can we shape AI technology to truly become a powerful embodiment and expression of the Church?"
He pins his hopes on incorporating biblical ethics into the model's weights, "so that every inference responds to human dignity."
"Value Alignment" and the Benchmark for Human Prosperity
To quantify the standard of "goodness," Gloo, referencing Harvard's "Human Prosperity Project," launched the Human Prosperity AI Benchmark , which evaluates the model's contribution using indicators such as spirit and emotion.
Internal testing revealed that while mainstream models excelled in translation and summarization, they struggled to provide deep, meaningful dialogue. Gloo therefore hosted an AI hackathon with over $250,000 in prize money, encouraging developers to create "value alignment" tools and emphasizing that funding would be focused on projects that measure human well-being.
Unknown variables in industrial and social impact
In the short term, Gelsinger's involvement has provided Gloo with a significant boost in fundraising and brand recognition, opening a new battleground for "values competition" within the AI industry. However, in the long term, once religiously oriented models are widely integrated into public decision-making or commercial services, balancing religious freedom with the needs of a diverse society will inevitably test the regulatory framework.
At a time when AI has yet to establish unified ethical standards, Gloo's experiment provides a window into the integration of faith and technology, and also exposes people's differences regarding the concept of "neutral technology." As theological terms such as "the Second Coming of Christ" and "the Antichrist" formally enter the product roadmap, Silicon Valley may be heading towards an unprecedented crossroads: it may bring new tools for human well-being, or it may push different beliefs to a more acute tension.
Whether this experiment can verify the new formula for "human prosperity" or simply add religious vocabulary to a technological utopia remains to be seen.
