RESEARCH · THEOLOGICAL ETHICS
What makes a human life flourish?
My research connects theological ethics, trauma, and artificial intelligence. I’m interested in how the worlds we inherit—and the tools we build—shape our capacity to live well.
Theology, technology, and responsibility
What does it mean for technology to serve human flourishing? That question sits at the intersection of my scholarly interests and my work building AI systems. Theological ethics offers a way to examine the values carried by our tools and the kinds of relationships they encourage.
I’m interested in the human stakes of apparently technical choices: how people are represented, how judgment is exercised, and how responsibility is shared when organizations bring AI into their work.
Trauma, identity, and well-being
My 2025 HTI scholar profile describes my research into how racial experiences shape Latine-Californians’ understandings of peace and well-being—often expressed in biblical language as shalom. This work attends to the spiritual and emotional dimensions of racial stress.
These questions begin with people’s lived experiences. They also matter for faith leaders and communities seeking to understand the injuries people carry and the conditions that make healing possible.
Research in conversation with practice
I bring these concerns into my AI and systems work, where questions of attention, care, and human judgment become decisions about how a workflow should actually behave. My writing explores related questions in a more personal register.
What does AI amplify in us?
I’m researching how technology amplifies our capacities for deception and truth-seeking, and reshapes social influence and power. What changes with AI—when a tool can speak persuasively, shape attention, and act on someone’s behalf?
Questions I’m carrying
- How does AI change the scale and character of deception, truth-seeking, influence, and power?
- How can emerging technologies support human flourishing?
- What do experiences of trauma reveal about the limits of our ideas of well-being?
- How do faith and identity shape what people mean by peace?
- What should remain a matter of human judgment as organizations adopt AI?
Research conversations
For a conversation about theological ethics, AI, trauma, or the relationship between scholarship and practice, write to me.