That's right

... what we're seeing right now is this acceleration of change.

So that's, you know, we're talking 15 years ago something like that was happening.

Now we're seeing that amount of change happen, but not over a 15-year period of time, but compressed into one or two years, and, and it's, for many people, they can't imagine a time.

There, there are certain people that can't imagine remembering how we did things before we were using the stuff that we have today.

So yeah, it's, it's interesting.

So why do we have, um, this position of AI and in- innovation? So w- I was Director of Innovation before the AI got tacked on to that, that role, and I think it's really important for any organization to always be innovating and to be thinking about how might we do something.

And I wanna know, Don, what kinds of questions are people asking Faithbot? Because another thing that we see is that people will ask a chatbot something they may be too shy or too embarrassed or too afraid to ask another human being.

To what degree has Wycliffe and your organization, the International Missions Board, incorporated AI? Is this something which is going on being full-blown, or is it something which is just transitioning? What's going on?

I think SIL or Wycliffe has done, obviously been cutting edge in using AI for different things, particularly for checking, testing, and looking for problematic parts of scripture.

It can really speed up the process.

It can help the people who are doing the translation can queue up.

They've got this model for oral Bible translation, which is a... translation, not a story, but the oral translation is they've used some tools that can help speed that process up.

We use it a lot in a lot of other areas.

So we use it for translation.

How did you keep from avoiding this denominational challenge between different denominations?

Could you unpack that a little bit?

Yeah.

So, so I've heard this criticism a lot, and what's interesting is if you think about the game Telegram, and most... or Telephone, most of us have played this game.

Uh, I started in youth group.

You would lean over and you would whisper ever so carefully, and you were only allowed to tell it one time.

You would tell one person, and they only-- they had to get what they got that one time.

And it was usually some weird, esoteric, weird story that was really hard to remember, and then they had to immediately tell it to somebody else, who told someone else.

... transitioning? What, what's going on?

When we look at driving innovation in an organization, and it could be your church, it could be an educational institution, whatever, but as you're driving innovation, you've got to solve problems.

All right, let's dive into today's topic.

I want to talk to you about driving innovation and risk and change averse organizations.

But before that, I want to tell you a story.

So I woke up one morning and I looked at my nightstand and I saw that.

And so what that is, is hotel keys, hotel keys.

cards that just collect on my nightstand, much to the dismay of my wife, who is constantly asking me why I keep these hotel keys.

And I'm not a thief.