Dr. Marius Dorobantu
Assistant Professor of Theology & Artificial Intelligence
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Leiden, Netherlands
Biography
Dr. Marius Dorobantu is a theologian working at the crossroads of cognitive science and theological anthropology, as an Assistant Professor of Theology & Artificial Intelligence at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL).
Biography
In 2020 he completed a Ph.D. in ethics (Univ. of Strasbourg), exploring what a scenario of human-level AI might mean for the theological notion of human distinctiveness.
Between 2020 and 2023 he was a postdoc in ISSR's interdisciplinary research project entitled 'Spiritual Intelligence: Psychological, Computational, and Theological Approaches,' funded with a "Diverse Intelligences" grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation.
Honoraria Titles
Major Prizes
Strasbourg University Thesis Prize for the PhD dissertation "Theological Anthropology and the Possibility of Human-Level Artificial Intelligence: Rethinking Human Distinctiveness and the Imago Dei"
Religion, Philosophy & History Interests
Christianity-Orthodoxy, Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, Theology
Science & Technology Interests
Anthropology, Information Technology, Psychology
Website
https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/marius-dorobantu
Publications
Human-Level, but Non-Humanlike Artificial Intelligence and a Multi-Level Relational Interpretation of the Imago Dei
2021
Volume:Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences 8(1)
Pages:81-107
https://www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/article/human-level-but-non-humanlike-101628ptsc-2021-0006?no_cache=1
Why the future might actually need us: A theological critique of the ‘humanity-as-midwife-for-artificial-superintelligence’ proposal
2021
Volume:International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence 7(1)
Pages:44-51
https://www.ijimai.org/journal/sites/default/files/2021-08/ijimai7_1_5.pdf
Imago Dei in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Challenges and Opportunities for a Science-Engaged Theology
2022
Volume:1
Pages:175-196
https://journal.iscast.org/past-issues/imago-dei-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence-challenges-and-opportunities-for-a-science-engaged-theology
Shamanic and Doctrinal: Dunbar and the Spiritual Turn in Contemporary Religion
2023
Co-authors: Fraser Watts
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/2153599X.2023.2168733?src=&journalCode=rrbb20
The Relational Turn in Understanding Personhood: Psychological, Theological and Computational Perspectives
2023
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/zygo.12922
Spiritual Intelligence: Processing Different Information or Processing Information Differently?
2023
Co-authors: Fraser Watts
Volume:58
Pages:732-748
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/zygo.12884
Is There 'Spiritual Intelligence'? An Evaluation of Strong and Weak Proposals
2023
Co-authors: Fraser Watts
Volume:14(2)
https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/14/2/265
The Master's Theory of Everything: A Review of Iain McGilchrist's "The Matter with Things"
2023
Volume:2(1)
Pages:6-17
https://www.academia.edu/99163241/The_Masters_Theory_of_Everything_A_Review_of_Iain_McGilchrists_The_Matter_with_Things
Artificial Intelligence as a Testing Ground for Key Theological Questions
2022
Volume:57
Pages:984-999
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/zygo.12831
Cognitive Vulnerability, Artificial Intelligence, and the Image of God in Humans
2021
Volume:Journal of Disability & Religion 25(1)
Pages:27-40
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23312521.2020.1867025
Moral Orthoses: A New Approach to Human and Machine Ethics
2019
Co-authors: Yorick Wilks
Volume:Zygon 54(4)
Pages:1004-1021
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/zygo.12560?campaign=woletoc#.Xc1EtAgs-4o.linkedin
"Strong Artificial Intelligence and Imago Dei: One Problem, Two Solutions" in Humanism and its Discontents: The Rise of Transhumanism and Posthumanism
Palgrave Macmillan 2022
Editors:Paul Jorion
Pages:19-33
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-67004-7_2
"Will Robots Too Be in the Image of God? Artificial Consciousness and Imago Dei in Westworld" in Theology and Westworld
Lexington Books 2020
Editors:Juli Gittinger and Shayna Sheinfeld
Pages:73-90
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781978707962/Theology-and-Westworld
