Dr. Marina Zilbergerts’ work explores the intersection of the Bible, human consciousness, and emerging technologies, bringing the study of language to bear on foundational questions about subjectivity and the human experience. She is the author of a recently completed book manuscript, Reading Genesis in the Age of AI: A New Story of Consciousness, which argues that the Book of Genesis offers an early phenomenology of consciousness that anticipates debates now resurfacing in contemporary theories of mind and in the study of artificial agents. She earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Stanford University and is currently a Visiting Professor in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa. She previously served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She engages in public conversations on personhood, faith and science, and the ethics of artificial intelligence, and writes The Inner Light on Substack.
