For a long time, research on early Christianity was shaped by the assumption that the Roman Empire resembled a modern state based on the rule of law in many respects and that the first followers of the Jewish Messiah Jesus had no reason to fear persecution. Correspondingly high, it is claimed, was the opinion of the Roman Empire and its emperor held by, for example, the Apostle Paul when in Romans 13 he seems to call for submission to state authority and dutiful tax payment w

Lots of things have gone wrong with the rollout of GPT-5. However, most of the things that have been noted so far have to do with how the...

Last week, together with Nina Beguš from UC Berkeley, I had the privilege of organizing a small conference on "AI and Human...

A key focus of my research is the question of how religion and artificial intelligence are connected – and what this means for how we...

The Pope as a figure in the AI showdown, like in Dan Simmons' Hyperion/Endymion - I truly didn't have that on my 2025 bingo card either....

On my blog, I regularly share (for example here ) very critical thoughts about AI development - or rather, how we as a society deal with...

It is almost as if Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, had deliberately wanted to fuel the discussion on AI and literature for the Leipzig Book...

The current issue of "auge" (which is German for "eye" and the acronym of the not quite as fancy"Amt und Gemeinde" = "Office and...

(c) S. Obermeier I am delighted to announce that from March 1, 2025, I will be supported as a member of the "Junges Kolleg" (Young...

We are currently – once again – in a very intense phase of AI development, where it's difficult to keep a cool head. After the progress...

An AI-face looking the way our faces should look right now In mid-January, I made a few predictions about AI developments in 2025. In...

A Glimpse Into the Crystal Ball (AI-generated, since I unfortunately don’t have a real one) January is now halfway over, so it’s high...