Dr. Philip Butler

Assistant Professor of Theology and Black Posthuman Artificial Intelligence Systems
Iliff School of Theology

United States

Biography

Dr. Butler is Partner Director of Iliff’s AI Institute where he leads the 8020 project, where the institute works to change how computers see people, relate to culturally iterative languages and build the bones for a data ownership model that hopefully creates a relational framework for the way AI is made around the globe.

He is also the author of Black Transhuman Liberation Theology: Spirituality and Technology and most recently the editor of Critical Black Futures: Speculative Theories and Explorations. He had published in journals such as the The Black Scholar, The Journal of Posthuman Studies and the Journal of Future Studies. He is currently working on his second monograph Still Black Posthuman: A Theory of Uncertainty and Disorder.

His first book project, Black Transhuman Liberation Theology, imagines what might happen when Black people utilize technological advancements to enhance both Black spiritualities and Black bodies in the struggle of materializing liberating realities. Currently, he is working to construct a Black posthumanism that is both critical and speculative in nature. He is also the founder of the Seekr Project, a distinctly Black conversational artificial intelligence agent with mental health capacities.

Honoraria Titles

Major Prizes

Religion, Philosophy & History Interests

History of Science, Indigenous Religions, Philosophy of Religion

Science & Technology Interests

Biotechnology, Genetics, Information Technology, Mathematics, Neuroscience, Physics

Website

http://www.theseekrproject.com

Publications

Black Transhuman Liberation Theology

Bloomsbury Dec 2019

Critical Black Futures

Palgrave 2021
Editors:Philip Butler
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7880-9