ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ORTHODOX ANTHROPOLOGY

Abstract

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a central locus of dialogue between science, philosophy, and theology, prompting renewed reflection on fundamental conceptions of human existence, knowledge, and creativity. Orthodox Christian theology, grounded in biblical revelation and patristic experience, understands the human person as a psychosomatic unity and an unrepeatable hypostasis called to communion and deification (theosis). This study investigates the relationship between AI and Orthodox theological anthropology, examining both areas of divergence and possibilities for constructive engagement. Emerging technologies reshape contemporary notions of rationality, embodiment, and relationality, raising important questions about consciousness, agency, and freedom. Within cultural narratives surrounding AI—such as techno-soteriology, technological neo-messianism, and techno-religion—technology often assumes symbolic or quasi-transcendent significance. Orthodox Christian experience offers an alternative interpretive horizon in which technological creativity may be approached as participation in the Creator’s ongoing work, shaped by the ethos of love, communion, and experiential knowledge of God.