Is the Our Lady of Guadalupe Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame and a Program Chair for the Notre Dame-IBM Tech Ethics Lab. His work examines the intersection of theology, science, medicine, and technology. He began his career in science, receiving a PhD in genetics from Harvard. After a postdoctoral fellowship at UCSF, he turned to moral theology, receiving his MTS and a PhD from the University of Notre Dame. Before returning to Notre Dame, he taught at the Catholic University of America and the University of Virginia.
He has written widely on AI, including the books The Ethics of Precision Medicine and Tomorrow’s Troubles: Risk, Anxiety, and Prudence in an Age of Algorithmic Governance. He is a member of the AI Research Group sponsored by the Dicastery for Culture and Education, for which he co-edited Encountering Artificial Intelligence: Ethical and Anthropological Investigations and the soon-to-be released Reclaiming Human Agency in an Age of AI.
