Speaking
What should human beings refuse to delegate to intelligent machines?
Religious certainty has weakened while artificial intelligence is changing what we can entrust to machines. Rodney’s speaking explores these concurrent questions: how we preserve meaning and sacred life after certainty, and how we exercise judgement as increasingly capable AI systems enter research, institutions and ordinary decisions.
Speaking topics
Religion, AI and human responsibility.
Incandescence: The Fire We Mistook for Heaven
Religion carried something real. What remains when supernatural certainty weakens but the human capacities for attention, belonging, wonder and responsibility do not?
Religion After Certainty
Why humans still reach for ritual, belonging, moral orientation and sacredness.
God, or Nature
Life, consciousness, inwardness and the possibility of a naturalistic sacred.
What Machine Intelligence Must Not Decide
Leadership, judgement and accountability when AI systems can advise, plan and act. What should remain a human decision, and what would meaningful oversight require?
AI Research and the Limits of Human Oversight
When AI helps design experiments, produce code and evaluate results, how can people retain the ability to check the work and challenge its conclusions?
Explore AI & Society →Consciousness, Human and Possible Machine Experience
What distinguishes capability from an inner life? A philosophical conversation about intelligence, agency and the evidence that possible machine subjectivity would require.
Christianity’s Living Fire
Meaning, freedom, community and the Christian inheritance after certainty.
The Sacred in Everyday Life
Attention, ritual, gratitude, belonging and ordinary ways human beings make life matter.
Formats
From keynote to conversation.
Keynotes & lectures
Substantial talks for audiences concerned with leadership, education, technology, religion, human flourishing and public life.
Conversation
Fireside and moderated conversations, panels, podcasts, radio, print, video and long-form interviews.
Flexible
Virtual appearances and international travel are welcome. Workshops can be developed when the format and audience justify dedicated material.
Availability
Build the right conversation for the room.
Professional keynotes, substantial lectures, interviews and other engagements are considered according to format, audience, preparation, travel and strategic fit. Fees are discussed privately rather than published as a fixed menu.
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