Wesley Wildman
Professor of Philosophy, Theology, and Ethics + Chair of Faculty Affairs for Computing & Data Sciences
Wesley Wildman is a Professor of Philosophy, Theology, and Ethics in the School of Theology at Boston University. His primary research and teaching interests are in philosophical theology, philosophy of religion, philosophical ethics, religion and science, the scientific study of religion, computational humanities, computational social sciences, and the ethics of emerging technologies.
Dr. Wildman teaches Data, Society and Ethics—a course that develops students' ability to critically examine and question the interplay between data science and computational technologies on the one hand, and society and public policy on the other. Students engage in and complete exercises to demonstrate their facility with key ethics tools and techniques, and analyze a series of real-world case studies—including creating course policy for use of ChatGPT—presented alongside ethical tools and analyses that are useful both for staying alert to emerging ethical challenges and responding to them as they arise in both employment settings and everyday life.