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November 2021

November 18, 2021

Technology-based and Technology-generated decisions #CFP

ICOHTEC 2022 Call for Papers and Sessions Technology-based and Technology-generated decisions The 2022 International...

November 15, 2021

Anthropology, AI, and the Future of Human Society #CFP

This call for papers grabbed my attention: The Call for Panels has been extended till...

October 2021

October 11, 2021

AI Imaginaries: Artificial Intelligence in Literature #CFP

This call for papers came to my attention: ACLA 2022 Annual Meeting June 15-18, 2022...

October 01, 2021

AI News

A round up of recent technology news that intersects with my interests: There are calls...

June 2021

June 16, 2021

The Bible and the Bots

When people are asked what distinguishes a robot from a human being, they will often...

June 14, 2021

Can Religions Make Room for Robots?

A while back Eboo Patel encouraged students to pursue degrees in the liberal arts for a...

March 2021

March 30, 2021

AI Transformations

It has been a while since I've written about the intersection of technology and religion....

October 2020

October 08, 2020

Is Google Smarter Than Your Pet?

I don’t know exactly where a conversation in class may go. Only old-fashioned professors who...

March 2020

March 29, 2020

The Gods of Westworld Season 3

Season 3 of Westworld makes clear that the show will continue to offer much that...

June 2019

June 23, 2019

AI and Other Tech News and #CFP

Due to my current research interests, I am keeping an even closer eye on news...

June 03, 2019

Interview in Latest Issue of the Indianapolis Business Journal

The latest issue of the Indianapolis Business Journal is dedicated to the theme of innovation, and includes...

April 2019

April 25, 2019

Technology and Grace

Anyone who makes a sweeping generalization about the inability of technology to being a means...

January 2019

January 09, 2019

ReligionProf Podcast with Ankur Gupta (Part 2): More on Robot Ethics

This week's episode continues my most recent conversation with computer scientist Ankur Gupta. Ankur is...

January 02, 2019

ReligionProf Podcast with Ankur Gupta: Sapientia ex Machina

In this episode, Ankur Gupta and I are back in the sound booth, and talking...

December 2018

December 26, 2018

ReligionProf Podcast with Christopher Benek

Here is the supersized ReligionProf Podcast that was released as a "Christmas Special" yesterday, featuring...

November 2018

November 25, 2018

#StarbaseIndy2018

These past days I have been attending Starbase Indy for the first time, and presenting...

June 2018

June 28, 2018

#CFP Moral Machines? The Ethics and Politics of the Digital World

From the symposium website: “Moral Machines? The Ethics and Politics of the Digital World” is...

June 26, 2018

Westworld and Religion

Somehow I've managed not to blog about Westworld, despite having found both seasons incredibly engaging,...

January 2018

January 06, 2018

Can an AI Write a Better Bible?

The author of a recent article was much more impressed than I was with an AI's vaguely...

October 2017

October 30, 2017

A.I. Am

Brandon Withrow has a new article out, about “The New Religions Obsessed with A.I.” It includes...

October 29, 2017

Confucius, Socrates, and Isaac Asimov Walk Into A Bar…

I am so delighted with the poster that my talented colleague Rebecca DeGrazia created for...

August 2017

August 30, 2017

AI Article, AAR, and an Unprecedented Third Appearance on Talk Gnosis

So much time had passed since I did the above interview for Talk Gnosis, that...

August 07, 2017

Replicant Lives Matter (and Robots Debating Humanity’s Future)

A fellow Patheos blogger, Leah Schade, has shared some thoughts about re-watching the classic movie...

June 2017

June 06, 2017

Call for Papers – AI and Apocalypse

Call for Papers AI and Apocalypse Centre for the Critical Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian...

September 2016

September 29, 2016

Would You Vote for a Machine for President?

Sometimes my class on Religion and Science Fiction seems to be incredibly practical, despite the...

July 2016

July 18, 2016

Terminator: The Simone Beauvoir Chronicles

Existential Comics recently offered a philosophical variation on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, a program...

February 2016

February 27, 2016

Do Unto Others

A lot of people have been sharing the image of robot trials undertaken at Boston...

July 2015

July 27, 2015

Chappie

I recently watched the movie Chappie. It poignantly conveys a point that I also sought...

June 2015

June 23, 2015

Amazon Echo: The Future Is Now

I paid a visit to Amazon.com today to see if I could find a particular...

June 01, 2015

Prophets of the Technological Future

I had been meaning to blog about the movie Ex Machina for a while now....

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