I happily present my research and ideas to both academic and public audiences, and welcome requests to visit academic, secular, and religious communities. I also consult in the videogame industry.

Subjects that I have spoken/consulted on include:

• religion & artificial intelligence
• religion & videogames/virtual worlds, especially World of Warcraft and Second Life
• religion & technology in contemporary India and in contemporary Korea (in collaboration with my colleague, Dr. Yong Sup Song of Seoul Christian University)
• religion, science, & technology in general (for example, ethical debates about biotech or the controversy over evolution and Creationism)

Among my recent events, some notables include:

• “Angels of Our Better Nature” given as keynote for the AI Hopes, Fears, and Realities: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue conference hosted by the MEEET Lab, University of Zurich; July 2, 2025.
• Lecture series supported by ROK-US Cooperation Program in the Humanities (NRF-2022S1A5A2A01047056): events held at Youngnam Theological University, Seoul Christian University, Yonsei University, and the Human Technology Symbiosis Network in May 2024.
• Lecture series supported by ROK-US Cooperation Program in the Humanities (NRF-2022S1A5A2A01047056): events held at Kyunghee University, the Society for Cultural Theology, Yonsei University, and Seoul Christian University in May 2023.
• “Intelligent Education for Artificial Intelligence” given at the annual Jewish Futures Conference hosted by the Jewish Education Program; March 23, 2023.
• Lecture series supported by ROK-US Cooperation Program in the Humanities (NRF-2021K2A9A2A20101640): events held at the Korean Theology and Technology Workshop, Wonkwang University, Presbyterian University and Seminary, Methodist University in May 2022.
• Northwestern University Faculty Roundtable, “AI, Religion, & Humanity: How Might (or Should) We Shape the Future,” January 19, 2022. Watch the event here.
• New York University Institute for Public Knowledge, “Co-Opting AI: Religion,” October 26, 2021. Watch the event here.

Sometimes, people just say some really generous things about me. For example:

• “I’d been telling anyone who would listen that to understand what was going on around OpenAI they needed to read your book!” – Pulitzer-prize winning journalist
• “He’s like a cross between Gandalf and Jack Sparrow…like a pirate wizard!” – former student
• “You look like a mountain god!” – A fellow scholar
• “You are original, scholarly, and provocative” – A fellow scholar
• “Whether it is ten people or one lakh (100,000) people. You lead like a boss” – an Indian fortune teller (I should acknowledge he was not sober, but is sobriety really a valuable state of mind when one peers into the hidden depths of reality?)
• “You are much more handsome than on the poster.” – A fellow scholar