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In an interview with To Vima, Yannis Papakonstantinou challenged a widespread assumption that innovation drives people away from God. He insists the opposite is true. The Orthodox faith, he said, is oriented toward the future. It remembers not only where humanity has come from but what it is called to become. He believes the Church is uniquely prepared to guide a world where artificial intelligence may one day think and act beyond human comprehension.
On Oct. 30, Papakonstantinou will present a keynote address at the Orthodox Observer‘s conference on artificial intelligence and theology.
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Papakonstantinou is a Google Cloud Distinguished Engineer. His work is on the intersection of GenAI and databases, technically leading novel features and products in support of GenAI and agentic applications over databases. He also holds an Adjunct Professor position of Computer Science at UCSD after many years of being a regular faculty member. Previously he worked at Databricks and Amazon Web Services. Earlier he was the CEO and Chief Scientist of Enosys Software, which built and commercialized an early Enterprise Information Integration platform for structured and semistructured data. It was sold under the BEA Aqualogic brand name and eventually acquired by BEA.
Prior to the AI area, his R&D work had been mostly on query processing and search with focus on querying semistructured data. He has published over one hundred twenty research articles that have received over 21,000 citations. He holds a Diploma of Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, MS and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University (1997).
Read the interview with To Vima in English and Greek.
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