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Dr. Jordan Wales is the John and Helen Kuczmarski Professor of Theology at Hillsdale College, where he teaches historical theology, philosophy of mind, and artificial intelligence. His scholarship—appearing in the journals AI & Society, Augustinian Studies, and the Journal of Moral Theology, among others—focuses on early Christianity as well as contemporary questions relating to theology and artificial intelligence. Most recently, he collaborated on the book Encountering Artificial Intelligence: Ethical and Anthropological Investigations (Pickwick Press, 2024), reflecting philosophically and theologically on the present and future nature, implications, and impacts of artificial intelligence on human beings, society, and the world. He is a member of the AI Research Group for the Holy See’s Centre for Digital Culture, under the Dicastery for Culture and Education; and he is a fellow both of the Centre for Humanity and the Common Good at Regent College, University of British Columbia, and of the International Society for Science and Religion. He received his M.T.S. and Ph.D. in Theology from the University of Notre Dame. A British Marshall Scholar, he holds a Diploma in Theology from Linacre College, Oxford; and a M.Sc. with Distinction in Cognitive Science and Natural Language from the University of Edinburgh. He earned his B.S. with Highest Honors in Engineering from Swarthmore College. He is the recipient of a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation; a Barry Goldwater Scholarship for science and engineering; and a Newman Research Scholarship at the National Institute for Newman Studies. His extracurricular interests range from literature and classical piano to Byzantine iconography and playing with his three children.