CORINNE NELSONTheological AI Ethics
Corinne Nelson
About

Meet Corinne.

Corinne Nelson serves as Director of the Co-Labor Initiative, Editorial Strategy Associate, and AI Practice Lead at Provision Financial Resources. She holds a BA in Global Studies from Judson College, an MA in Ethics, Theology, and Culture from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, and an MA in Philosophy of Religion and Ethics from the University of Birmingham (UK). She is completing a PhD in Divinity (Theological Ethics) at the University of Aberdeen, where her dissertation addresses flourishing discourse in Christian theological ethics. She also teaches Faith and Ethics as an adjunct professor at High Point University.

Her scholarly work on artificial intelligence brings the Christian ethics tradition to bear on emerging technology. She presented a paper on virtue ethics and AI titled “Clean Agents and Optimised Worlds” at Virtue for Generative AI, the inaugural conference of the Notre Dame Program on Artificial Intelligence and the Development of Ethics in Agents at the University of Notre Dame, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. She will present “Post-Lapsarian Anthropology for Pre-Lapsarian AI” at the Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society in November 2026, having been awarded a B&H Academic award in recognition of her scholarly work, which funds her participation in the meeting. She has also been invited to contribute to a special project with Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology for her work on AI and theological ethics. She reviews for the Journal of Moral Philosophy, including work on virtue-theoretic approaches to technology and AI. As AI Practice Lead, she directs Provision’s AI implementation and governance, setting the ethical standards for the organization’s use of these tools, developing staff training, and building automated workflows across Provision’s systems.

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Areas of focus

What I bring.

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Foundations

What AI is, where it is heading, and what it means to be human.

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Theological ethics

Moral and theological principles grounded in Scripture.

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Practical use

How these principles shape the way your team uses AI each day.

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People-centered

AI use that stays people-centered and people-owned.

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