About Jacob Boss
Jacob Boss is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Queen’s University and Managing Editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion.
He is the author of “The Darkness Inside Us: Reproductive Futurism and AI” American Religion 2023; “Alcançando Através da Nuvem: Efervescência Coletiva e Obscurantismo da IA/reaching through the Cloud: Collective Effervescence and AI Obscurantism” Debates do NER 2023; “Punks and Profiteers in the War on Death,” Body and Religion 2022; “Human Augmentation” with Sharday Mosurinjohn and Jeremy Cohen, 2022; “For the Rest of Time They Heard the Drum,” Theology and Westworld, 2020, and “The Harmony of Metal and Flesh: Cybernetic Futures,” Spiritualities, Ethics, and Implications of Human Enhancement and Artificial Intelligence, 2020.
Jacob is the co-founder of the Human Augmentation Research Network. HARN supports scholars researching human enhancement and augmentation, AI, and transhumanism. Jacob is the co-chair of the the Human Enhancement and Transhumanism unit of the American Academy of Religion and serves on the steering committee of the Emerging Technologies Exploratory Group.
Jacob teaches widely, having offered courses in the Department of Religious Studies, the School of Education, the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, and the Collins Living-Learning Center at Indiana University Bloomington. He has also taught and worked as an educational consultant for Queen’s University School of Religion. He is writing a monograph on Do-It-Yourself (DIY) human enhancement technologies.
Jacob’s work can also be found on his Academia.edu page.