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August 2024

August 24, 2024

Is AI Controlling Us, or Are We Truly Free?

The Freedom of AI We often find ourselves concerned with the degree to which AI...

December 2023

December 15, 2023

AI at Christmastime

It’s Christmastime. On my list of things to do – after getting all my grades...

September 2023

September 23, 2023

ChatGPT and Education

A group of faculty from my institution gathered earlier this month to discuss the presence...

June 2022

June 23, 2022

AI, Faith, the Future, and the Apocalyptic Imagination

I am pleased to announce that AI, Faith, and the Future, a book I edited and...

March 2022

March 25, 2022

Lecture on AI and the Apocalyptic Imagination

Upcoming public lecture: “Artificial Intelligence and the Apocalyptic Imagination: The Ends of Artificial Agency,” April...

April 2020

April 16, 2020

A Roadmap for Theological Engagement with Artificial Intelligence

What might a roadmap for AI Theology look like?

April 09, 2020

COVID-19, AI Ethics, and Vocation

Many of the responses to COVID-19 highlight the possibilities and limits of artificial intelligence. These...

December 2019

December 15, 2019

The Advent of Automation

As the automation of work advances, what questions should we be asking about the future...

November 2019

November 21, 2019

Digital Transformation

Digital technologies have been changing our lives since the middle of the twentieth century. Digital...

October 2019

October 25, 2019

The Digital Dimension of Our Lives

There is a new digital dimension to reality, blending with and enhancing our embodied lives...

August 2019

August 15, 2019

Trust in Technology

In our increasingly complex technological environment of distributed agency, in whom and what do we...

August 07, 2019

Broken code: the vandalism of shalom

Coders play a glorified role in our society. They are makers-of-worlds. To see your code...

June 2019

June 12, 2019

Technology and Faith

Where are people of faith speaking into discussions about the ethics and future of technology?

May 2019

May 24, 2019

Human Futures: Or, How Not to Be Apocalyptic

Moving beyond transhuman and posthuman futures toward truly apocalyptic human futures.

May 21, 2019

Elements of Digital Wisdom

Elements of a framework for clarifying values, goals, and actions in the digital age.

April 2019

April 26, 2019

Digital Reformation? Consider the Library

How should digital technologies transform the church as an institution? Is the library a model...

April 19, 2019

“What Could Possibly Go Right?”

As we consider what might go wrong with AI, we also must consider what should...

April 09, 2019

The Possibilities of AI Ethics

In light of Google’s dissolution of its external advisory group—barely a week after it was...

March 2019

March 21, 2019

The End and Beginning of Work

Advances in automation and artificial intelligence require us to consider the future of work as...

March 04, 2019

The Limits of Digital Ethics

Digital ethics discussions reveal important agreements as well as disagreements. How can our frameworks accommodate...

January 2019

January 10, 2019

Will AI Replace Man’s Best Friend? A Dog-lover’s take on robot dogs

AIs were popular gifts this past Christmas. Some of them were of the barking, tail-wagging...

January 06, 2019

The Meaning of the City

The city is an autonomous and intelligent multi-agent system participating in new creation.

December 2018

December 12, 2018

Advent for AI

Advent reflections on broadening our imaginative engagement with AI.

December 06, 2018

Forms of Creation

Some medieval wisdom for the machine age.

September 2018

September 12, 2018

The Techo-Human Stack

If we are unaware of and inattentive to the forces beneath the surfaces of our...

February 2018

February 08, 2018

Going to School on AlphaGo: the science and beauty of learning

"Beauty is a signpost to deep learning." The 2017 prize-winning documentary, “AlphaGo” tells the...