Denni Boy Saragih

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Denni Boy Saragih is a pioneering scholar at the intersection of theology, artificial intelligence, and posthumanism. His research critically examines how emerging technologies—particularly AI and robotics—challenge and reshape traditional religious concepts, including transcendence, personhood, and the nature of priesthood. In his most cited work, “The Priesthood of All Sentients? The Eclipse of Transcendence in an Age of Artificial Intelligence” (2023), Saragih analyzes the BlessU-2 robot, an anthropomorphic machine that performed a blessing service during the 2017 exhibition in Wittenberg, Germany, commemorating 500 years of the Reformation. He uses this case to probe whether AI can meaningfully participate in religious rites and what that means for human uniqueness. By drawing on Protestant theology and posthumanist thought, Saragih argues that the eclipse of transcendence in an AI-saturated world demands a radical rethinking of who—or what—can mediate the sacred. Though his work is still gaining traction (with 3 citations to date), its provocative thesis positions him as a vital voice in the growing dialogue between religion and technology, offering students and researchers a bold framework for understanding faith in the age of intelligent machines.