ACTI's Fellows will present their research and writing about the intersections of creativity and artificial intelligence. Their work does not take a collective stance “for” or “against” AI, but instead reflects on its challenge and promise across disciplines. Please join us for these significant contributions to creative and academic scholarship with distinguished LMU Faculty. This event received support from the Center for Faculty Development and the Office of the Provost. Admission is free and open to the general public.

Faculty Fellows & Projects:

Aidin Namin (College of Business Administration, Marketing Analytics)

Contemplating the Algorithm: A Laudato Si’–Inspired Reflection on Marketing, Data Analytics, and AI

Examines how marketing and data analytics practitioners can respond to AI in ways that are ethically responsible, spiritually grounded, and socially just.

Saeri Dobson (College of Communication & Fine Arts, Studio Arts – Graphic Design)

Whose Voice, Whose Face? AI, Race, and the Reimagining of Divine Presence in the Digital Age

Explores how generative artificial intelligence is reshaping theological imagination by producing visual and auditory representations of the divine.

Michelle Amor Gillie (School of Film and Television)

The Ignatian Imagination and Artificial Intelligence: Teaching Screenwriters to Discern Creative Use of AI

Investigates how Ignatian principles can guide young screenwriting students to thoughtfully use AI in creative processes without losing their authentic voice.

Jane Brucker (Department of Art & Art History, Studio Arts – Drawing)

Time Blessings

Offers a visual essay of clocks, prints, and performance, exploring the difference between AI’s perception of time and human perception of time. Meditating on existence, spirituality, and our shared future, her work echoes Laudato Sí by repositioning time as a medium for ecological awareness, interconnection, and collective care for our planet.

Nancy Choe (College of Communication & Fine Arts, Marital & Family Therapy / Art Therapy)

An Autoethnographic Reflection on Climate Trauma, AI Tools, and Art Therapy Practice

Studies how AI technologies affect personal and collective processes of grief, recovery, creativity, and meaning-making while rooting her work in the lived experience of surviving the Eaton Fire. She explores how creative artists and mental health professionals can ethically utilize AI.

K.J. Peters (BCLA English)

Thinking on the Page: AI as Supplement to Reasoning and Expression

Argues that AI in writing classrooms reveals not a threat but a symptom of educational habits—and makes a pedagogy informed by Jesuit rhetorical tradition and moral reasoning essential for discernment of values and ideologies that AI emits.

Aimee Ross-Kilroy (BCLA English)

The Soul in the Machine? Artificial Intelligence, Embodiment, and Catholic Literature

Considers how Catholic and Catholic-adjacent writers anticipated AI and how literature can help us navigate the strangeness of large language models through embodiment, imagination, and faith traditions. She places 20th and 21st-century works in conversation with Laudato Si'.