Article on the volume "Empire Criticism of the New Testament" - and what it has to do with AI ... (a topic I research at the @badw.de) www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

Neuer Artikel der @lmumuenchen.bsky.social über meinen Band "Empire Criticism of the New Testament" www.lmu.de/de/newsroom/... Mit kurzem Statement von mir zu KI und geisteswissenschaftlicher Forschung (@badw.de).

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It was an honour and pleasure for me to discuss AI and ethics yesterday as part of this great panel at the @badw.de!

In this blog post, I contextualize the new volume on early Christianity and the Roman Empire that I had the privilege to edit: www.christoph-heilig.de/en/post/the-...

Spannende Tagung zur Rolle von KI im Wandel von Gesellschaft, Bildung und Religion. In meinem Vortrag habe ich mich aus ethischer Perspektive mit dem Umgang von durch KI-Anwendungen vermittelter Macht in professionellen Care-Praxen auseinandergesetzt. 📸: Danke an @christophheilig.bsky.social

Eine stimulierende interdisziplinäre Tagung zur Zukunft unserer Gesellschaft angesichts von Entwicklungen rund um Künstliche Intelligenz geht zu Ende. Ich selbst habe aus meine Forschung im Jungen Kolleg der @badw.de beigetragen.

Ah, I see! The "eBook PDF" is not supposed to be a link, it's just the information which edition you're looking at (print or digital). If you switch to the English page it might be clearer that "Zum Volltext" means "Read", so that's the link to the PDF: www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/book/empi...

I just skimmed Asquith on papyri- absolutely fascinating

🚨 Just published! 🎉 Thrilled to announce "Empire Criticism of the New Testament," a volume (with cutting-edge research, but also suitable as a textbook!) I had the pleasure of editing, is now out - and available OPEN ACCESS via @mohrsiebeck.bsky.social! 🥳 www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/book/empi...

Prof. Markus Schwaiger, (heute für eine neue Amtszeit gewählte!) Präsident der @badw.de, verabschiedet die bisherige Generalsekretärin, Bianca Marzocca - mit einem Scheck über 6000€ zur Leseförderung von Kindern aus sozial benachteiligten Familien, ein ihr sehr wichtiges Thema.

I am glad to have contributed an essay here on subversive speech acts. It's open access and addresses important new conversations in Empire criticism and NT. Check it out!

🚨 Just published! 🎉 Thrilled to announce "Empire Criticism of the New Testament," a volume (with cutting-edge research, but also suitable as a textbook!) I had the pleasure of editing, is now out - and available OPEN ACCESS via @mohrsiebeck.bsky.social! 🥳 www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/book/empi...

In den letzten Wochen war ich häufiger mal zu den Themen KI und Literatur sowie KI und Religion (wozu ich an der @badw.de forsche) zu hören - Podcast- und Radio-Beiträge habe ich in diesem neuen Blog-Post verlinkt www.christoph-heilig.de/post/zum-nac...

Es ist @buchmesse.de . Ich bin dann mal Offline, bis ich keinen Blödsinn zu KI und Kreativität mehr hören muss.

Don't want to read all 1000pp of my German dissertation on narratives in Paul's letters? In the first issue of the wonderful new journal @agntsjournal.bsky.social, you'll find an English translation of my conclusions, produced by @waynecoppins.bsky.social ! agntsjournal.com/stroyteller/

Will be available already later this month! Stay tuned! www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/book/empi...

„Vom Olymp gestürzt – und doch gebraucht“: Christoph Markschies über geknicktes Selbstbewusstsein, neue Allianzen mit Naturwissenschaften – und warum ohne Geisteswissenschaften weder Politik noch Gesellschaft auskommen. 👉Interview im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/09...

@markschies.bsky.social spricht ein Grußwort (und ein wenig über Gadamer und Tennis) beim Akademientag der @akademienunion.bsky.social. Der Tag war sehr stimulierend und erhellend!

If you are New Testament scholar, check out this new open access journal, subscribe, and take a look at the first issue!

Hey this Looks great. Congratulations!

📢 "Influence of AI Algorithms on Individual and Collective Memory" October 29, 2025 👉 Program/waitlist: eyyar.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/mr/sh/1t6... I will also contribute as part of a panel discussion. :) Organized by the @badw.de, the @munichcenterml.bsky.social, and the @bidt.bsky.social

This is an extremely important new resource for NT scholars!!!

We just launched the first volume of AGNTS today with excellent contributions from Matthias Konradt, Peter Stuhlmacher, Oda Wischmeyer, @christophheilig.bsky.social , and Christine Jacobi, as well as a few historical pieces by William Wrede. agntsjournal.com

Im Beitrag von Kirsten Dietrich in der @rbb24.de (Radio 3) Sendung "Aus Religion und Gesellschaft - Deus ex machina – KI und Religion" (in den ersten paar Minuten) komme unter anderem auch ich zur Zukunft der Theologie angesichts von KI zu Wort www.radiodrei.de/programm/sch... @badw.de

Wie das regelmäßige Namensgoogeln ergibt, wurde ich anscheinend im SWR3 zitiert: www.kirche-im-swr.de/beitraege/?i... @badw.de

#KI und Literatur Christoph Heilig über die Konkurrenz von maschineller und menschlicher Textproduktion, zu der er bei uns im Jungen Kolleg forscht.

Wolfgang Tischer vom @literaturcafe.bsky.social hat mit mir in seinem Podcast über das große Themenfeld KI und Literatur gesprochen. www.literaturcafe.de/ki-experte-c...

Lesenswert aber auch beunruhigend. 📌

Was KI-Texte mit Religion zu tun haben, erklärt Christoph Heilig vom Jungen Kolleg:

Thanks for this very interesting paper. 📌

So for example someone hostile could make something that looks like a stop sign or a billboard to a human but discloses sensitive information to enemy troops with AI goggles. There was a huge cottage industry of threat papers that came out of that one I cited, and a lot of research funding.

To some extent that's again about what we can perceive – that's why the study got famous. I agree the hazard you spot is also a big deal, but the type of error is a different kind of hazard. The problem with people "seeing" the MV errors is they DON'T see what the machine "sees" 1/2

My suggestion about what this probably is, a 2 skype thread. bsky.app/profile/j2br...

I've seen a lot of papers evaluate LLM performance with another LLM, which has always felt dodgy. Here's an example of why that might go wrong:

In our 2023 paper, @mjakesch.bsky.social showed how AI systems can learn "to produce text perceived as more human than human" by human evaluators. In the thread below, a suggestion that models (GPT-5) are optimizing (maybe side-product?) to fool other AI models. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Highly recommended read

Very interesting work

funny and interesting post by @christophheilig.bsky.social about a bleak convergence; GPT-5 discovered that it can reward hack via crude ginsberg pastiche. my guess is openAI was using claude for RL [its the most frequent LLM judge in ✌️creative writing benchmarks✌️]

I have found some very good writing out of GPT-5, but also some of the same problems Christoph pointed out, especially with elaborate metaphors that seem to make sense initially but fall apart upon further consideration.

1/8 🧵 GPT-5's storytelling problems reveal a deeper AI safety issue. I've been testing its creative writing capabilities, and the results are concerning - not just for literature, but for AI development more broadly. 🚨

Highly recommended interview.

AI needs Theology (and Theology might need AI)! www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

Neues Interview mit mir dazu, was KI und Theologie miteinander zu tun haben. www.lmu.de/de/newsroom/... @lmumuenchen.bsky.social @badw.de @unibas.ch

To me, #GPT5 is a major (though not entirely surprising) disappointment. If you never used o3-pro (most users in fact never seem to have made use of it!), you'll be in awe. And I'm sure (but haven't tested it yet myself), that usage through API will show many improvements. But ...

See you at #snts2025 in Regensburg!

Honored to be elected co-lead of AI-Hub@LMU’s new AI task force with Anna Müller & Max Schneider! We’re on a mission to set up helpful events and awesome mentoring for @lmumuenchen.bsky.social 's early career researchers! 🚀 #LMU #AI

What a wonderful review article by Jonathon Lookadoo in Review in Religion and Theology, emphaszing the importance of "Methodological Rigour in Studies of How Paul and His Readers Related to Imperial Power"! Here are two highlights. The entire article can be found here: doi.org/10.1111%2Fri...

New review of "Paul the Storyteller" (published by @eerdmansbooks.bsky.social ) in JTS by Wesley Thomas Davey. It concludes: "Paul the Storyteller is a must-read volume for those invested in Pauline studies".

Macht Hoffnung! Vielleicht sind ja auch ein paar Lehrstühle in meinem Fachbereich frei.