Global Missional AI
Global Missional AI
Podcast Description
Join host Joshua Seale weekly as they explore the intersection of mission work and AI. Featuring exclusive interviews with innovators using artificial intelligence to expand global impact, this podcast brings you insights from the frontlines of the Missional AI community. Discover how AI is transforming outreach with thought-provoking conversations and practical applications. Where faith and technology converge to create new possibilities for mission work in the digital age.
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The podcast covers topics such as trust in AI, AI safety and alignment, Christian perspectives on technology, and the intersection of faith and artificial intelligence. Specific episodes include discussions on the ethical implications of AI with Richard Zhang, the impact of AI on ministry strategy with Gareth Russell, and the development of biblically-aligned AI models with Eric Celerier.
Join hosts Joshua Seale and James Poulter weekly as they explore the intersection of mission work and AI. Featuring exclusive interviews with innovators using artificial intelligence to expand global impact, this podcast brings you insights from the frontlines of the Missional AI community. Discover how AI is transforming outreach with thought-provoking conversations and practical applications. Where faith and technology converge to create new possibilities for mission work in the digital age.
In 1999, a Michigan entrepreneur sensed God calling him to India. He started a business there with one purpose: to fund missional work. Twenty-seven years later, EC Group's purpose hasn't changed, but its business has, from medical transcription to software development, and now into the age of AI.
Recorded live at the Missional AI Global Summit in Santa Clara, Stuart sits down with Mike Sudyk, who has led EC Group since 2018. Mike shares why EC Group chose to pull its teams and clients toward AI tools rather than wait for them to ask, and how safe-space sharing sessions and volunteer hackathons helped senior developers move past resistance. He explains how a people-centric, long-term business can embrace efficiency without treating people as expendable, and why both the ”AI will replace everything” crowd and the skeptics make for difficult conversations.
Mike also gets candid about his own wake-up call: realizing that fear about AI's threat to his business had quietly shut down his creativity, and how stepping away to build hands-on changed that.
A thoughtful, practical conversation for any leader navigating change.
This episode is sponsored by EC Group, a business-as-mission software company that has served as a missional software partner to faith-based and mission-driven organizations for 27 years, supporting Scripture engagement, discipleship, outreach and ministry innovation worldwide. Learn more at ecgroup-intl.com.
Join us at Missional AI SFO27, March 30–April 1, 2027, at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport. Super early bird pricing ends October 8, with early bird pricing continuing through the end of the year. Register at missional.ai.
Table of contents
(00:00) Cold open(01:07) Introduction and sponsor: EC Group(02:52) Join us at Missional AI SFO27(03:31) Origin story: a call to India and a business built to fund mission(06:03) Why employee retention became EC Group's core value(08:22) Adapting the team for an AI future(09:39) Guiding clients through the noise(11:38) Two unlocks: safe-space sharing and hackathons(13:15) Staying people-centric while embracing automation(16:27) Finding the honest middle between hype and skepticism(19:56) Making time to learn, and Mike's personal wake-up call(22:20) Fear of obsolescence vs. a vision for resilience(23:33) How technology is reshaping opportunity for mission(26:11) Early bird registration for MAI SFO27
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