Dr. CHECKETTS, Levi Mahonri
Associate Director, Centre of Applied Ethics
- Organizers and lead for Pontifical Council for Culture (Vatican) Committee for AI Concerns in Asia
- Member of Human Enhancement and Transhumanism Steering Committee for American Academy of Religion
- Fellow with Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences
Degree(s):
| BA, University of Notre Dame, USA MTS, Boston College, USA PhD, The Graduate Theological Union, USA |
Taught previously at: | Santa Clara University, USA St Mary’s College of California, USA Holy Names University, USA |
Courses Taught currently | RELI 4067 Environmental Ethics
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Teaching area(s): | Christian social ethics, Technology ethics, Theology and Science, Human rights, Business ethics, Environmental ethics, Existentialism and phenomenology, Theological Studies of Technology |
Research area(s): | Christian ethics of new technologies, Artificial Intelligence ethics, Theological Studies of Technology, Transhumanism, Economic ethics, Theology and Science, Mormon ethics |
Current project(s):
| Republishing Carl Mitcham and Jim Grote’s Theology and Technology: Essays in Christian Analysis and Exegesis with updated essays.
Monograph under contract with Fortress Press on Artificial Intelligence epistemology and poverty.
Leading AI concerns committee with scholars from across Asia to consult on social and ethical concerns of AI for the Vatican. |
Selected output(s): | Poor Technology: Artificial Intelligence and the Experience of Poverty. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2024.
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Selected Conference Presentations: | “Latent Extropianism in Cross-Border Surrogate Pregancies: Devouring the Poor in the Name of the Free Market” (June 2021). College Theology Society Conference (online).
“Technology and Religion: On the Technological Augmentation of the Sacred” (March 2021). Arnold Lecture at Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA.
“Invisible Faces in Invisible Spaces” (July 2020). TheoCom 2020 Conference at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA.
“The Christian Response to Entropy: Reading Pierre Teilhard de Chardin against Himself on Violence” (June 2019). Catholic Theological Society of America in Pittsburgh, PA.
“The Geoengineering Trolley Problem and a Jonasian Solution” (January 2019). Society for Christian Ethics 2019 Conference in Louisville, IN. |