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Christina McRorie is associate professor of moral theology at the Boston College Clough School of Theology and Ministry. Her research is interdisciplinary, and draws from the Christian tradition, political economy, and economics to consider questions about moral agency and obligation in markets. She is the author of The World of Markets: A Theology of Moral Agency in Economic Life, and co-editor of Markets and Other Social Structures: Analyzing Moral Ecologies in Christian Ethics. She has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Catholic Social Thought and the Journal of Moral Theology, and starting in 2027, she will serve as the co-editor of the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics. In 2026, she was invited to join the Artificial Intelligence Research Group sponsored by the Dicastery for Culture and Education鈥檚 Centre for Digital Culture, for a project on AI and labor.

Sam Ransbotham is the Peter F. Drucker Chair of Management Sciences and Professor of Analytics at Boston College. While everyone seems to talk about artificial intelligence, Ransbotham is curious about what businesses are really doing鈥擧ow are normal businesses using AI now? How will they use AI later? To learn more, he serves as editor for the MIT Sloan Management Review initiative on Artificial Intelligence in Business. Recently, he co-authored a research report, 鈥溾�� and co-hosts the 鈥溾�� podcast. Since 2015, he has been an editor for MIT SMR鈥檚 Big Ideas initiatives, including and .聽Ransbotham earned a Bachelor鈥檚 degree in Chemical Engineering, an MBA, and a PhD, all from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Brian K. Smith is the Honorable David S. Nelson Professor and Associate Dean for Research at the Lynch School of Education and Human Development. His research interests include the design of computer-based learning environments, human-computer interaction, design sciences, societal impacts of computation, out-of-school learning, and computer science education. He is a technical advisor to the Center for Inclusive Computing at Northeastern University, a program fellow with the Spencer Foundation, and chair of the World Usability Day Design Challenge. He also co-chairs the International Conference on Learning and Collaboration Technologies.

Andrea Vicini, S.J., is Chairperson, Michael P. Walsh Professor of Bioethics, and Professor of Theological Ethics in the Theology Department at Boston College. Medical doctor and pediatrician (University of Bologna), he is an alumnus of Boston College (STL and PhD) and holds a Sacred Theology Doctorate (STD) from the Pontifical Faculty of Theology of Southern Italy (Napoli). He is co-chair of the international network Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church (CTEWC). His research includes fundamental moral theology, theological bioethics, global health, biotechnologies, and environmental issues. In 2015-2016, he was research fellow at the Center of Theological Inquiry (Princeton, NJ) on the societal implications of astrobiology. With the Artificial Intelligence Research Group for the Centre for Digital Culture of the Dicastery for Culture and Education of the Holy See, he co-authored Encountering Artificial Intelligence: Ethical and Anthropological Investigations (2023) and Reclaiming Human Agency in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (2025). He authored: Genetica umana e bene comune (2008) and co-edited: Intercultural Theological Ethics: Fundaments, Frameworks (2025); Plastic Pollution, Theological Ethics, and the Call of Laudato Si鈥� (2025); The Rising Global Cancer Pandemic: Health, Ethics, and Social Justice (2022); Ethics of Global Public Health: Climate Change, Pollution, and the Health of the Poor (2021); Reimagining the Moral Life: On Lisa Sowle Cahill鈥檚 Contributions to Christian Ethics (2020); Building Bridges in Sarajevo: The Plenary Papers of CTEWC 2018 (2019); Just Sustainability: Technology, Ecology, and Resource Extraction (2015); and The Legacy of Vatican II (2015).