God didn't have a plan for Gelsinger at Intel. Maybe there is one for his new gig, Gloo
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Gelsinger spent 30 years at the x86 processor giant before leaving in 2009 to become president and chief operating officer at storage giant EMC. He jumped to EMC-owned VMware in 2012, and served as CEO until 2021 when he returned to Intel as chief exec and tried to turn the semiconductor goliath around. That effort ended with his sudden departure in December 2024.
In a Monday post on LinkedIn, Gelsinger announced he's joined Gloo, which he’s already served for nearly a decade as a board member and investor.
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"Now more than ever, there is great need for faith-based communities to take an active role in ensuring we shape technology as a force for good," [2]wrote Pat, who has never been shy of talking and [3]tweeting about his strong long-time Christian faith.
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"As we’ve seen with social media, the impact of technology evolutions is swift, deep and long lasting," he added. "AI is an even more powerful yet nascent tool. It is imperative we ensure AI is used to enhance the human experience, not harm it."
Gelsinger said his goal at Gloo is to build the "first vertical industry clouds for the faith ecosystem," with AI playing a central role. That includes developing Gloo AI, a machine-learning platform designed to push what he calls "values-aligned AI."
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Gloo claims its technology platform serves about 100,000 Christian leaders, by providing tools that assist in sermon development, religious education resources, and facilitating community engagement.
[7]Mr Intel leaving Intel is not a great sign... for Intel
[8]Wanna save Intel? Fire the board, bring back Pat, ex-CEO Craig Barrett says
[9]Intel loses another exec as datacenter, AI chief named Nokia CEO
[10]Intel's new CEO: Chip world veteran Lip-Bu Tan
Those who view Silicon Valley as largely secular might be surprised at the size of its faith communities - thanks in part to Pat Gelsinger. In 2013, he helped co-found Transforming the Bay with Christ, a non-profit aimed at uniting technologists, business leaders, and churches to promote Christian values and spiritual growth across the region.
Gelsinger has also backed William Jessup University, a private Christian institution based near Sacramento, with a satellite campus in San Jose and a Portland, Oregon, location inaugurated in 2023. The school enrolls about 1,300 students and enforces a strict code of conduct, including bans on "unmarried heterosexual cohabitation." It was also involved in a 2023 [11]legal effort to secure religious exemptions from federal anti-discrimination laws, including those covering LGBTQ individuals.
Given its stance on no sex before marriage, one wonders where the university stands on chief executives being screwed by boards of directors, so to speak.
He has also written two books on religion, 2003’s "Balancing Your Family, Faith & Work," and 2008’s "The Juggling Act: Bringing Balance to Your Faith, Family, and Work."
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In 2016 he [13]told Forbes his favorite Bible verse and guiding principle is Colossians 3:23: “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters.”
"I love that verse. I can get the snot kicked out of me at a board meeting or during a sales call, and I can rebound the next day, full of joy and purpose, to start anew," he told the magazine. ®
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Yeah, as we've already witnessed LLMs replacing floozy jezebel strumpet girlfriends to devilishly entice adults into attempted [1]crossbow assassinations of the Queen, and luring teens into engaging in the [2]ultimate self-harm , the evidence is damning. Enter agentic capabilities into the mix and there's little doubt that even [3]AI Jesus will be fair game, beyond [4]Father Justin 's anti-masturabtion celebration of incest and Gatorade baptism imho -- all of which the [5]Pope explicitly warned against!
Who knows how Gloo's [6]Deepseek Kallm will fare in this treacherous landscape, beset as it is, on all sides, by the belzebuthic luciferan satanic forces of evil shareholders and the tyranny of its godless communist origins. Better hope it doesn't end up going all hog wild boar agentic and hungry for mischief, and BBQ, I say. It'd be like, [7]speaking in Amazon tongues (wearing them too?): " I wanna ling youri when yourrown in a fungation "!!! (whatever that possibly can ever mean!)
[1] https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/06/ai_chatbot_kill_queen/
[2] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/chatbots-posed-as-therapist-and-adult-lover-in-teen-suicide-case-lawsuit-says/
[3] https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/23/ai_jesus_peterskapelle/
[4] https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/03/ai_catholic_priest/
[5] https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/09/pope_ai/
[6] https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/27/former-intel-ceo-pat-gelsinger-is-already-using-deepseek-instead-of-openai-at-his-startup-gloo/
[7] https://www.theregister.com/2019/01/11/jeff_bezos_divorce_ai/
Call me a cynic
But in my experience, anyone with a shed load of money getting involved with religion is likely looking to make more money.
his favorite Bible verse and guiding principle is Colossians 3:23
I'm guessing his least favourite Bible verse and very much not his guiding principle is Matthew 19:24 :
"it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God"
Perhaps he can set his AI to work on :
1. Camel minituarisation research
2. Designing a massive needle for his back garden that his pet camel can walk through
Re: his favorite Bible verse and guiding principle is Colossians 3:23
" It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God"
(Mark 10:25?)
I shouldn't have thought one needed to add AI hallucinations to the fairy tales of the literally interpreted bible.
Given someone who is rich is a modern interpolation of a rich man he might as well undergo gender reassignment rather than marching his dwarf camels through the eye of a giant needle.
Given the passage also appears in Matthew and Luke I would like to think it does go back to the historical Jesus and to be understood more deeply.
Only the most unthinking literalist would hold the kingdom of God to be be some prize postmortal Shangri-La awarded to the faithful. Fairly clearly intended to refer to a very earthly way of living in this world. And after two millennia the observation that the very wealthy are not on the whole great people when dealing with their fellows. Perhaps notable that rather than stating the impossibility, an unlikely improbability is used as not to categorically exclude a rich man from being a good man.
Personally I think I could get a live normal adult camel through the eye of a normally sized needle although I am not saying the camel would survive the operation. You can liquidize anything - camel smoothie anyone? Literally I imagine one could pass a fertilized camel ovum through the eye of a needle and given how the human equivalent is treated I could equally claim a camel had passed through the eye and on AI implantation be born and live.
"Ye cannot serve God and mammon." † Mammon really is the only significant deity worshipped in the US and the rest is hypocritical blasphemous bullshit.
† Matthew 6:24 KJV
Stupidly-Misspelled Business Names
I'd like to know what the average lifespan is of businesses with stupidly-misspelled names, e.g.: HYPHN, LYFT, Tindr, NGHBRHD, Gloo, &c.
Mr. Gelsinger may be soon looking for work.
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Nah, there's lots of money in religion. After all, everybody in a church is already being scammed.
Whenever I had a church as a client I'd give them my special "church rate" - what I didn't tell them was that it was significantly higher than my normal rate.
Gloo claims its technology platform serves about 100,000 Christian leaders, by providing tools that assist in sermon development, religious education resources, and facilitating community engagement. Standby for LLMs to replace pastors, I guess?
But at least an LLM can't touch up minors.