Alex Sarkissian

Alex Sarkissian is a Buddhist chaplain, meditation teacher, and co-founder of the Buddhism & AI Initiative, which works to advance Buddhist engagement with the development and impacts of AI. He holds a Master of Divinity in Buddhism from Columbia University’s Union Theological Seminary, where his thesis examined the social and spiritual implications of AI and emerging technologies through the lens of the Threefold Training.

Alex was previously a founder, CMO, and operator at early-stage startups and a strategy consultant at Deloitte before being called to the intersection of spiritual care, artificial intelligence, and collective transformation in this time of collapse. A meditator since 2009, Alex has spent nearly a decade practicing in the Insight and Soto Zen traditions, and is lay ordained in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki.