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Recent publications, lectures, interviews, and updates from ongoing research.
Keynote at the 2027 Australian Lonergan Workshop
A keynote address for the workshop theme Intelligence, AI, and Risk, on competing visions for human flourishing. The session is hybrid and runs in April 2027.
Vigilant Hope forthcoming from Ascension Press
Vigilant Hope: Preserving Human Dignity in an Age of Artificial Intelligence is written for a general Catholic readership. It argues that every design choice embeds a vision of the human person, and that someone is answerable for it.
"Imitation and Imitation's Other" at AI Personhood: A Catholic Response
An invited talk at the Rome conference on AI personhood and the Catholic response, 4 November 2026.
Mediated by Meaning published by Wipf and Stock
The latest monograph explores Bernard Lonergan's philosophical theology and its relevance to contemporary questions of meaning, consciousness, and conversion.
Can AI Ever Be Human? published by The Catholic University of America Press
Co-authored with Paul O’Hara. The book argues through Lonergan’s cognitional structure that human consciousness is incommensurable with artificial intelligence.
L’etica di Bernard Lonergan published by Città Nuova
An Italian monograph on Lonergan’s ethics, recovering the common good through beauty and truth.
Co-Editor-in-Chief of Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics
Appointed co-editor-in-chief from January 2026, alongside the editorship of the International Journal of Technoethics.
New edited volume on Theology of Human Enhancement
Co-edited with James J. Hughes and Cristiano Calì, this De Gruyter volume examines theological traditions' engagements with human enhancement technologies.
"Encoded Values: How Design Choices in Medical AI Shape Human Flourishing"
Sources of Our Flourishing: Encounter and Presence, Toronto, Canada, 24–26 October 2025.
"Can AI Ever Be Human? Consciousness, Personhood, and the Limits of Machine Intelligence"
A.I. Is Transforming Society: Are Catholics Ready?, St. Mary's University, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 10–11 October 2025.
"What AI Is—and What It Will Never Be"
A.I. Is Transforming Society: Are Catholics Ready?, St. Mary's University, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 10–11 October 2025.
Interview on AI ethics and Catholic social teaching
A conversation on the convergence of AI ethics with Catholic social teaching, exploring how value-laden design can serve the common good.
"Progettare l'attenzione: un approccio etico al design e alla comunicazione"
L'attenzione nelle professioni della comunicazione e nella ricerca (CIRCe 2025), Università degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italia, 4 June 2025. [Italian]
"Il futuro della tecnologia. Progettazione etica e innovazione responsabile"
Artificial Life, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, 19 November 2024. [Italian]
