Oleg Pavenkov is Assistant Professor at the Alliance School of Liberal Arts and Humanities, Alliance University, India. He holds a PhD in Philosophy, specializing in the philosophy of culture and philosophical anthropology, from Saint Petersburg State University, and a Doctorate in Theology from the Pontifical Oriental Institute. He also holds a Master’s degree in English Applied Linguistics from the Autonomous University of Madrid and a Specialist degree in Sociology from Saint Petersburg State University. His academic career includes teaching and research positions in sociology, social sciences, philosophy, and theology. His research interests include the ethics of artificial intelligence, philosophical anthropology, religious philosophy, and the relationship between culture, ethics, and emerging technologies. His recent work examines the ethical and anthropological implications of artificial intelligence and the transformation of human agency in technologically mediated environments. He has published on AI ethics, altruism, philosophy of love, moral values and religious consciousness.
His books include The Concept of Love in Latin Patristics of the Fourth–Fifth Centuries; The Role of Mediation in Conflict Resolution: A Scientific and Applied Analysis; Religiosity of Young Scientists in Contemporary Russia; Christian Philosophy of Love: The Evolution of the Concept of Love in Philosophical Anthropology; Philosophy and Sociology of Gender Images and Value Orientations. He is currently working on a book entitled Moral philosophy and theology of AI (Cambridge University Press).