Not long ago, I blogged a few thoughts on robots and religion. I noted an old paper of mine and some contributions to the journal Material Religion… Read more “Robots: the stuff of religion pt2”

Okay, so the bad isn’t really about academic publishing, and the good isn’t about academic publishing in general. I just want to make some notes on where… Read more “Good and bad in academic publishing”

Today I remembered how I’m allowed by OUP to upload portions of my book for folks to read a bit (and hopefully be excited by!). So I… Read more “Futures of Artificial Intelligence – sampler”

Every week brings the latest wonderful accomplishment in chatbots, machine learning, and other would-be artificial intelligences of the sentient variety: most absurdly, the recent thrill of a… Read more “Jesus toast, the Turing Test, and imagining artificial intelligence”

There’s been a raft of commentary on how academics write things and academic publishers reap unusually robust financial benefits (see excellent summaries here and here); but right… Read more “The cost of academic book publishing”

I’m listening to an excellent interview with Dr. Renny Thomas, an anthropologist in India. In my opinion, Dr. Thomas is at the forefront of studying religion and… Read more “Anthropology of the moderns”

One of the things that I engaged last year was an extensive set of conversations, workshops, and public events on AI ethics. I was involved with those… Read more “AI policy recommendations”

This semester, I’m teaching a brand new class: FutureProofing Humanity. The course takes as its premise that some people have a religious worldview of using science and… Read more “Human and transhuman dignity”

Many years ago, I wrote a paper arguing that religious cultures help explain why — particularly at that time — U.S. scientists and engineers were more interested… Read more “Robots: The Stuff of Religion”

Can’t wait? Skim below for a coupon that’ll let you buy Temples of Modernity directly from the publisher at a price just over $30. Can’t wait that… Read more “Temples of Modernity – much more reasonable price!”