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Christina Bieber Lake is Professor of English (Emerita) at Wheaton College, where she taught contemporary American literature and literary theory for twenty-five years. She is the author most recently of the award-winning Beyond the Story: American Literary Fiction and the Limits of Materialism. Lake has published extensively on biotechnology and the ethics of personhood. She writes regularly for many publications including Current, where she was a contributing editor.
Christine Boshuijzen-van Burken holds a PhD in ethics and philosophy of technology from Eindhoven University of Technology. She currently works as senior researcher at the Netherlands Defence Academy and holds the chair in Christian Philosophy at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. Her research includes ethics of technology, ethics of autonomous systems and AI in the military, ethics of humanitarian logistics for refugees and reformational philosophy.
Andy Crouch is partner for theology and culture at Praxis, a venture-building ecosystem advancing redemptive entrepreneurship. His writing explores faith, culture, and the image of God in the domains of technology, power, leadership, and the arts. He is the author of five books (plus another with his daughter, Amy Crouch). For more than ten years he was an editor and producer at Christianity Today, including serving as executive editor from 2012 to 2016. For ten years he was a campus minister with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at Harvard University. He studied classics at Cornell University and received an M.Div. summa cum laude from Boston University School of Theology.
Matthew Dickerson earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Cornell University in 1989 and since then has been a faculty member in computer science at Middlebury College (Vermont). His primary areas of research are computational geometry and agent-based modeling in ecology. He also did graduate work in Old English Language and Literature, and in addition to numerous publications in computational geometry he has written extensively about J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, with particular interests in theological and environmental aspects of their writings. His published books include The Mind and the Machine: What It Means to Be Human and Why It Matters (Cascade) and Aslan’s Breath: Seeing the Holy Spirit in Narnia (Square Halo).
Richard Mouw (foreword) is President Emeritus of Fuller Theological Seminary (1993-2013) and directed their Institute of Faith and Public Life (2013-2020). His initial career in academia began at Calvin College, where he taught philosophy from 1968 to 1985.
Jeremy Peckham is a technology entrepreneur and spent much of his career in the field of Artificial Intelligence working at the UK Royal Aircraft Establishment and later Logica, an international software company. Whilst at Logica he was Project Director of a 5 year pan European research project on Speech Understanding and Dialogue (SUNDIAL) that broke new ground in AI. Jeremy founded his first company in 1993 through a management buy-out, based on the AI technology developed at Logica, and launched a successful public offering on the London Stock Exchange in 1996. Over the last 25 years he has invested in and served on the board of a number of high-tech companies. Jeremy is passionate about applying the Bible to the ethics of technology and AI and is currently a Commissioner for the AI, Faith and Civil Society Commission that is engaging with policy makers and other stakeholders around the globe to ensure that core human values are preserved in the development and deployment of AI. His 2021 book Masters or Slaves, AI and the Future of Humanity (IVP 2021) provides a biblical foundation for what it means to be human as a basis for evaluating our engagement with AI. Jeremy is a 1st Class Honours graduate in Applied Science and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of the Arts manufacturing and commerce (The RSA) in 1995. He has authored over 50 papers and articles on AI, ethics, entrepreneurship and leadership and was editor of Recent Developments and Applications for Natural Language Processing (Kogan Page, 1989).
Derek C. Schuurman (editor) studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Waterloo and worked as an engineer in industry for several years. He later returned to academia and a completed a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at McMaster University in the area of robotics and computer vision using machine learning. He is currently professor and department chair of computer science at Calvin University, a fellow of the American Scientific Affiliation, a fellow of the International Society for Science and Religion, and an advisor for AI&Faith. He has spoken widely on the topic of AI and has written about faith and technology issues in Christian Courier and in the Christian Scholar’s Review blog. He is the author of the book Shaping a Digital World: Faith, Culture and Computer Technology and co-author of A Christian Field Guide to Technology for Engineers and Designers, both published by InterVarsity Academic Press.
Jacob Shatzer (PhD, Marquette University) has focused most of his scholarly efforts over the last decade writing and speaking about technology and ethics from a theological perspective. His 2019 book Transhumanism and the Image of God (IVP Academic) included reflection on artificial intelligence, and he has further explored that topic in more depth in talks, shorter writings, and chapters since. Jacob serves as provost as well as professor of theological studies at Union University in Jackson, TN.
David I. Smith is Professor of Education and director of the Kuyers Institute for Christian Teaching and Learning at Calvin University. He also serves as coordinator of the de Vries Institute for Global Faculty Development and as Editor of the International Journal of Christianity and Education. David earned his B.A. at Oxford University, an M.Phil.F from the Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto, and a Ph.D. from the University of London. He writes and speaks widely on questions related to Christian education and is author of the award-winning volume On Christian Teaching: Practicing Faith in the Classroom.
Felicia Wu Song is a cultural sociologist who studies the social effects of digital technologies on community and identity in contemporary life. She is author of Restless Devices: Recovering Personhood, Presence, and Place in the Digital Age (2021), Virtual Communities: Bowling Alone, Online Together (2009) and other academic articles on expectant women’s online information-seeking habits and the cultural evolution of “mommy bloggers.” Trained in history, communication studies, and sociology from Yale, Northwestern and University of Virginia, she has taught Mass Communication at Louisiana State University and been Professor of Sociology at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, CA.
Jason Thacker (PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) serves as assistant professor of philosophy and ethics at Boyce College and Southern Seminary. He is also a senior fellow and director of the research institute at The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. He is the author or editor of several volumes including The Age of AI, Following Jesus in a Digital Age, Ethical Method: A Short Companion, and The Digital Public Square. He is also co-editor of Baptist Social Ethics and the Essentials in Christian Ethics series.
Douglas D. Webster (PhD, University of St. Michael’s College) has taught at Tyndale Seminary and Beeson Divinity School and served as pastor at churches in Toronto, New York City, and San Diego. He has authored numerous books including The Psalms: Jesus’s Prayer Book, The Parables: Jesus’s Friendly Subversive Speech, More than a Sermon: The Purpose and Practice of Christian Preaching, and Pastoral Identity: True Shepherds in the Household of Faith. He and his wife Virginia recently moved to San Diego to be close to family and to continue serving the church.
John Wyatt is Emeritus Professor of Neonatal Paediatrics, Ethics & Perinatology at University College London. He was Co-Principal Investigator for a research project based at The Faraday Institute investigating the implications for human self-understanding of recent advances in artificial intelligence and robotic technology. He participates frequently in the teaching and public dissemination activities of the Faraday Institute and co-edited with Stephen Williams, The Robot Will See You Now: AI and the Christian Faith published by SPCK in 2021.