Pat Gelsinger’s four decades of leadership in tech innovations included, most recently, a stint as CEO at Intel (2021– 2024). But, as a serious Christian, he was anxious to share what he had learned about AI innovation with ministry leaders.

Thus last year he joined Gloo, a Boulder, Colorado-based company that has provided tech services to churches and ministries since 2013.

When he accepted the position of executive chair there, he said, “Technology has the power to connect, uplift and transform lives — but only when built with purpose. At Gloo, we are uniting innovation with faith principles to ensure technology serves people, strengthens communities, and becomes a force for good.”

It’s a big territory. Gloo reckons that the “U.S. faith ecosystem” includes roughly 450,000 churches, faith networks, service providers, and nonprofits. And it’s a hignly fragmented ecosystem that is not always receptive to new technology.

Gloo, which went public in 2025, tries to maintain a Christian approach to the new tech. From Grok, we learn “Gloo distinguishes its technology by prioritizing the Bible as the authoritative source for grounding AI responses, ensuring theological coherence, moral clarity, and direction toward real-world church community involvement, setting it apart from secular AI platforms through its commitment to redemptive, Scripture-centered innovation.” Gelsinger himself emphasizes, “ an urgent need to embed values directly into AI models, shaping how people interact with technology and ensuring AI serves as a force for good.”

What, specifically, does Gloo try to do for churches and ministries?

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At SiliconANGLE, Maria Deutscher explains,

In his leadership role at Gloo, Gelsinger oversees a portfolio of brands and services that provide text and email messaging services, data-driven metrics to manage volunteers and improve donor engagement, and artificial intelligence applications to automate administrative tasks. There is an AI Studio where developers can create new tools and assistants while integrating top large language models. Churches, faith-based universities and nonprofits are Gloo’s primary customers.

“Pat Gelsinger-backed Gloo seeking to raise up to $109M in IPO,” October 31, 2025

His view of churches’ need to get up to date with new technology is rather blunt. Last summer, he told Mark Albertson, also at SiliconANGLE, “Every time you put a dollar in that offering plate, or send your check in, or do a transaction to support, it’s a bad dollar because you don’t have good technology behind it.”

He added,

I’m a hardware, hard tech guy at heart,” Gelsinger said. “I’ve often asked myself, ‘Why did God have me run a software company for eight years?’ The answer is now extraordinarily obvious, it’s called Gloo. Every day the experience of running an at-scale software company has come to benefit.

“Faith Tech: Pat Gelsinger steers Gloo’s platform to lead faith-based organizations into the age of AI,” July 12, 2026

But not every Christian techie thinks that tech immersion is a good idea

Software engineer Doug Smith has called that approach a “wolf in sheep’s clothing” here at Mind Matters News:

GenAI is not neutral. It’s not the printing press. GenAI is specifically designed to form an undeserved trust relationship, and long-term dependency. It uses the same manipulative techniques as social media, only with far worse outcomes. Big Tech designed it to exploit our behavioral psychology and neuroscience to form habits and addictions.”

There’s nothing about GenAI that will bring me closer to God. Everything about it is designed to replace my relationship with God. It’s to be the top-of-mind answer to every question, the solution to every problem. It’s built on Big AI’s commandment: “Seek first the kingdom of Silicon Valley (including Gloo).” If you regularly use AI, think of how often it becomes the first thing you think of, before you pray to the one true God, before you ask another knowledgeable human. September 17, 2026

Earlier this month, Smith published [Un]Intelligence: The Lies Behind Today’s AI and The Truths You Need To Thrive, outlining his concerns in more detail.

We can’t tell you who is right but …

… we can certainly tell you how to find out more about what’s at issue!

Pat Gelsinger will be at COSM 2026: Reality Check, on Wednesday, November 18 at 2:00 pm at the Weston Kierland in Scottsdale, Arizona. He is teamed with philosopher of technology George Gilder and Bret Swanson — the new Director of the Heritage Foundation Center for Technology and the Human Person — in a Fireside Chat called “Moore’s Law: Is It the End, or Is It Just Beginning?”

They will doubtless ask the same questions we might want to ask. Register today and you can still get the standard rate.

Note: Moore’s Law is the thesis that technology advances much faster than we find it easy to adapt to.