About this Retreat
Nicholas Collura is a spiritual director and visiting retreat director at St. Raphaela Center in Haverford, PA.
A board-certified healthcare chaplain and Enneagram teacher, he currently serves as a chaplain at MIT. There he also directs Radius, an ethics program committed to challenging uncritical narratives of technological progress.
He earned a Master of Divinity and trained as a spiritual director at the Boston College Clough School of Theology and Ministry. A former Jesuit, Nicholas has also ministered on several college campuses, at a L'Arche community in the Pacific Northwest and at juvenile halls and adult state prisons in California.
His website is
www.nicholascollura.com.
Details of this retreat
Many of us have strong feelings about AI—curiosity, hope, concern, unease—but we find ourselves grasping for a language with which to explore and articulate these feelings.
This conversation offers a clear, accessible look at the ethical questions surrounding today’s Big Tech landscape, drawing on the presenter’s experience as a chaplain and ethicist at MIT.
We’ll explore how AI is shaped by powerful economic forces, and what that means for workers, the planet, and how we understand ourselves as human. We’ll also name some of the surprising ways people are already engaging AI on a spiritual and religious level—from experimental AI “seances” in Cambridge, to using tools like ChatGPT for spiritual counsel, to reports of deep emotional or consciousness-altering experiences with chatbots.
Together, we’ll create space for honest conversation and reflection, beginning and ending with an invitation for participants to notice, share, and explore their own spiritual stance toward AI.
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