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UFSP Digital Religion(s)

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Beth Singler, Prof. Dr.

  • Assistant Professor / Assistenzprofessorin "Digital Religion(s)" / Projektleitung "Post-AI Religion"
Tel.
+41 44 634 16 70
Anschrift
UFSP Digital Religion(s), Stampfenbachstrasse 106, 8006 Zürich
Raumbezeichnung
STC-F-104

Short Biography

  • 2025-   Co-Director URPP Digital Religion(s), in Phase 2 URPP Digital Religion(s)
  • 2025-   Principal Investigator in Phase 2 of URPP Digital Religion(s). Project: "Post-AI Religion and Religious AI: Reciprocal Disruption and Futures"
  • 2023-   Co-Lead, Media Existential Encounters and Evolving Technology Lab (MEEET Lab)
  • 2022 -   Assistant Professor in Digital Religion(s), University of Zurich
  • 2020 - 2022 Director of Studies, Theology, Religion, and the Philosophy of Religion, Homerton College, University of Cambridge
  • 2018 - 2022 Junior Research Fellow in AI, Homerton College, University of Cambridge
  • 2016 -   Associate Fellow, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge
  • 2016 - 2018 Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Faraday Institute for Religion and Science, St Edmunds College, University of Cambridge, on Templeton Funded project: "Human Identity in an Age of Nearly Human Machines"
  • 2012 - 2022 Affiliated Supervisor and Lecturer, Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge
  • 2011 - 2016 PhD Theology and Religious Studies, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge
  • 2010 - 2011 MPhil Theology and Religious Studies, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge
  • 2002 - 2010 Freelance film writer, London
  • 1999 - 2002 MA Hons (Cantab) Theology and Religious Studies, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge

Books

  • 2024 Religion and AI: An Introduction, Routledge
  • 2024 The Cambridge Companion to Religion and AI, co-edited with Fraser Watts, Cambridge University Press
  • 2021 Radical Transformations in Minority Religions, co-edited with Eileen Barker, Routledge
  • 2017 The Indigo Children: New Age Experimentation with Self and Science, an ethnographic monograph on the New Age Movement, Routledge

Research Interests

  • Digital Religion
  • Artificial intelligence
  • AI ethics
  • Religious uses of technology
  • Emerging technologies
  • Narratives, tropes, and memes in discourse
  • New Religious Movements
  • Transhumanism and Posthumanism
  • Human Augmentation Communities
  • Digital Identity and Community Formation
  • Digital Anthropological Methods

Memberships and Commitment

  • Directorate of the Digital Society Initiative, University of Zurich
  • Member of Digital Society Initiative (UZH) Communities on Ethics, Communication, and AI and Culture & Society
  • Associate Professor, Digital Society Initiative, University of Zurich
  • Expert Member, AI and Faith, global network
  • Expert Member, AI and Faith Civil Society Commission, UK
  • Fellow, International Society for Science and Religion
  • Steering Committee member, AAR AI and Religion Unit
  • Steering Committee member, AAR Human Enhancement and Transhumanism Unit
  • Member, Human Augmentation Research Network
  • Member, William Temple Foundation Ethical Futures Group
  • Advisory Board member, two external Templeton funded projects: "Self-enhancement, ‘Biohacking’ and Spiritual Yearning" and "Muslims, the Secular, and Existential Risk"
  • Member, University of Notre Dame, Australia, "Big Ideas" seed grant: "Building Research Capacity in AI, Emerging Technologies and Society"

Teaching Activity at the UZH

  • Digital Religion(s): Methods, Technologies, and Futures
  • Religion, Speculative Fiction, and Pop Culture