Philip Butler
Philip Butler is an international scholar whose work primarily focuses on the intersections of neuroscience, technology, spirituality and Blackness. He uses the wisdom of these spaces to engage in critical and constructive analysis on Black posthumanism, artificial intelligence and pluriversal future realities. He is also the founder of the Seekr Project, which explores the iterative connections between generative AI, mental health and critical Black consciousness.
Dr. Butler is the Director of Iliff’s AI Institute where he leads its research efforts around changing how computers see people, relate to culturally iterative languages while building the bones for a data ownership model with the aim of cultivating a relational framework for the way AI is made around the globe.
He has published in journals such as The Black Scholar, The Journal of Posthuman Studies and the Journal of Future Studies. He is the author of Black Transhuman Liberation Theology: Spirituality and Technology andthe editor of Critical Black Futures: Speculative Theories and Explorations. He is currently working on his second monograph Still Black Posthuman: A Theory of Uncertainty and Disorder.
