Assistant Professor of Theology & Artificial Intelligence
My current mission is to nourish a mutual enrichment between artificial intelligence and religion. Theological anthropology can and cognitive science. Likewise, spiritual and wisdom traditions can bring valuable contributions to the interdisciplinary research on the nature of intelligence and the ethical debates regarding human flourishing in a digital age.
Forthcoming book: 'Artificial Intelligence and the Image of God: Are We More than Intelligent Machines?' (Cambridge University Press)
Between 2020 and 2023, I've been part of an interdisciplinary team of psychologists, philosophers, theologians, and computer scientists at the ISSR (International Society for Science & Religion). We worked on a project entitled ,developed within the, funded by the Templeton World Charity Foundation ($1M). My focus was on a theological understanding of the notion of intelligencein conversation with AI and evolutionary science.
Between 2024 and 2027, I am co-directing the research project "" funded by the Templeton World Charity Foundation through a grant ($500k) to the ISSR.
Previously, my prize-winning analysed the challenges posed by the possibility of human-level AI to the notion of imago Dei in theological anthropology.
A research master's thesis I supervised , awarded by the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities - KHMW (Michiel Bouman, "A Life of Gelâzenheit: Spiritual Intelligence According to Meister Eckhart and Iain McGilchrist")
I am a fellow of the ISSR. In 2022, I was elected as a member of its executive board.
Peer reviewer for Oxford University Press, CRC Press (Routledge) and the academic journals Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences, Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science, Theology and Science, Sophia, Toronto Journal of Theology, Scientia et Fides, Philosophia Reformata, Religions, and Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion.
Selected publications (complete list ):
M. Dorobantu. (in press). Artificial Intelligence and the Image of God: Are We More than Intelligent Machines?Cambridge University Press.
M. Dorobantu & F. Watts (eds.). 2024. . Routledge [with chapters by, among others, Rowan Williams, Catherine Pickstock, Michael Reiss, William Clocksin]. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032646244.
M. Dorobantu. 2024. “” In , edited by B. Singler and F. Watts. Cambridge University Press. 88-108. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009031721.007.
M. Dorobantu (ed.). 2024. "." Special guest-edited section in Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science59 (3): 661-787.
M. Dorobantu. 2024. "." Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 59 (3): 768-787. https://doi.org/10.16995/zygon.16902.
M. Dorobantu. 2024. "."Christian Perspectives on Science and Technology(New Series). https://doi.org/10.58913/RXJR6727.
M. Dorobantu. 2024. "" In , edited by M. Dorobantu and F. Watts, 83-98, Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032646244-8.
M. Dorobantu & F. Watts. 2024. "." In , edited by M. Dorobantu and F. Watts, 3-18, Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032646244-2.
M. Dorobantu. 2024. "." In , edited by G. van den Brink, R. Peels and B. Sollereder, 186-202. Routledge. .
F. Watts & M. Dorobantu. 2024. "." Religion, Brain & Behavior 14(1): 85-90. .
F. Watts & M. Dorobantu. 2023. "." Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 58 (4): 1029-1044. .
M. Dorobantu & F. Watts. 2023. "" Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 58 (3): 732-748. .
F. Watts & M. Dorobantu. 2023. "."Religions 14 (2), 265. .
M. Dorobantu. 2023. "."Reviews in Science, Religion and Theology2 (1): 6-17.
M. Dorobantu. (in press). “Hesychasm.” In Routledge Handbook of Mount Athos, edited by G. Speake. Routledge.
M. Dorobantu. 2023. "" ]. Recherches de Science Religieuse 111 (4): 661-678. .
M. Dorobantu. 2022. "." Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 57 (4): 984-999. .
M.Dorobantu. 2022. 'Christian Perspectives on Science and Technology (New Series) 1: 175-196. . This article was awarded the Australian Theology Research Foundation's prize.
M. Dorobantu. 2022, “” In Humanism and its Discontents: The Rise of Transhumanism and Posthumanism, edited by P. Jorion. Palgrave Macmillan. 19-33. .
M. Dorobantu. 2021. “." Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences8 (1): 81-107. .
M. Dorobantu. 2021. "l." International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence7 (1): 44-51. .
M. Dorobantu. 2021. “." Journal of Disability & Religion 25 (1): 27-40. .
M. Dorobantu. 2020. “” In , edited by J. Gittinger and S. Sheinfeld. Lexington Books. 73-90.
M. Dorobantu & Y. Wilks. 2019. “." Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 54 (4): 1004-1021..
Selected (video) talks and lectures:
2024: . Lecture at the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, Cambridge, UK.
2023: A webinar for the International Society for Science & Religion.
2023: (Response to Ted Peters). ISCAST.
2022: . At the Winter Seminar of Progress in Theology, Abraham Kuyper Center, Amsterdam.
2022: [Being human in the age of artificial intelligence]. Lecture (in French) at the Human Technology Foundation, Paris.
2021: Debate with philosopher Pim Haselager at the Institute for Eastern Christian Studies (IvOC), Radboud University Nijmegen.
2021. At the SPT Conference 2021 (Society for Philosophy and Technology), Lille.
2020: . Doctoral thesis defence, Strasbourg. The thesis was awarded the University of Strasbourg Research Committee's prize.
2018: [The challenges of Artificial Intelligence]. Debate with computer scientist Frédéric Wickert, Strasbourg.
