“Is there a hack for enlightenment?” Vox Conversations, September 30, 2021.
“Thoughts on innovation from a change skeptic,” Presbyterian Outlook, September 15, 2021.
“Spiritual Tech is the Future of False Religion,” Salvo, June 28, 2021.
“Mystical experiences on demand? Welcome to spirit tech,” Big Think, July 8, 2021.
“A Natural History of Music,” Scholarium, June 21, 2021.
“Rearranging Ritual: A Conversation With Connor Wood, PhD,” Sinai and Synapses, June 9, 2021.
“Spiritual Technology: A Conversation With Kate J. Stockly,” Sinai and Synapses, May 20, 2021.
“The Joys and Challenges of Interdisciplinary Research,” Science on Religion, April 30, 2021.
“The age of “spirit tech” is here. It’s time we come to terms with it.,” Ken Chitwood, March 23, 2021.
“God in the Brain: PW Talks with Kate J. Stockly,” Publishers Weekly, March 19, 2021.
“Spirit Tech with Wesley J. Wildman,” Open Div Summit, February 26, 2021.
“An Artificial University Drives Real-World Countermeasures to COVID-19,” MITRE Project Stories, December, 2020.
“Ritual, Play, and the Landscape of Value,” Science On Religion, November 23, 2020.
“STEM Meets Religion,” Publishers Weekly, November 6, 2020.
“Is Your Society Good for (Biological) Fitness?,” Science on Religion, October 29, 2020.
“Religions as Complex Adaptive Systems,” Science on Religion, September 29, 2020.
“Details Matter When Tackling the Public-Health Crisis of Maternal Mortality,” Boston University Institute for Health System Innovation & Policy, September 21, 2020.
“New Research Shows the Four Conditions That Lead to a Less Religious Society,” Friendly Athiest, August 25, 2020.
“New video on computer modelling of religion,” LeRon Shults Blog, June 16, 2020.
“Religion is Play Gone Wrong,” A Philosopher’s Stone, Medium, April 15, 2020.
“Being copycats might be key to being human,” The Conversation, January 14, 2020.
“Predicting the future is now possible with powerful new AI simulations,” New Scientist, October 2, 2019.
“Computer simulations can help prepare us for a zombie apocalypse — and much more,” Built In, September 24, 2019.
“Top 40 Tech Tools to Combat Child Trafficking,” Trafficking Matters, August 13, 2019.
“Tomorrow’s Gods: What’s the Future of Religion?” BBC – Future, August 2, 2019.
“V.R. could take scary nightmares down a notch,” Futurity, January 30, 2019.”
“How Virtual Reality Might Help Fight Recurring Nightmares,” The Brink, January 30, 2019.
“Virtual reality therapy shows promise in the treatment of nightmares,” PsyPost, December 22, 2018.
“Using AI to explain religious conflict,” Cosmos Magazine, November 5, 2018.
“The Paul Coia Show: Interview with F. LeRon Shults,” BBC Berkshire, November 4, 2018.
“BBC Radio 4: Interview with Justin Lane,” BBC Radio 4, November 4, 2018.
“Predicting religious violence beforehand: The future of AI?,” TechEngage, November 2, 2018.
“This ‘Psychological’ AI System Mimics Religious Violence to Understand It,” Seeker, November 2, 2018.
“The AI that could help predict religious violence,” The Telegraph, October 31, 2018.
“AI systems shed light on root cause of religious conflict: Humanity is not naturally violent,” ScienceDaily, October 31, 2018
“Can artificial intelligence help stop religious violence?,” BBC News, October 31, 2018
“Researchers Simulated Religious Groups With AI to Try to Understand Religious Violence,” Motherboard – VICE, October 31, 2018.
“AI systems shed light on root cause of religious conflict,” University of Oxford, October 30, 2018.
“Computer Modeling Religion,” WCAI – NPR Living Lab Radio, August 13, 2018.
“Can Artificial Intelligence Predict Religious Violence?” The Atlantic, July 23, 2018.
“Religion is uniquely human, but computer simulations may help us understand religious behavior,” The Conversation, June 11, 2018.
“FMHT: Disrupting the Human Trafficking-Migration Nexus,” Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University, October 30, 2017.
“Meet Wesley Wildman of Center for Mind and Culture in Kenmore Square,” the Boston Voyager, October 23, 2017.
The Religious Studies Project: Modeling Religion and the Integration of the Sciences and the Humanities in the Bio-Cultural Study of Religion podcast, Wesley Wildman interviewed by Thomas White, October 9, 2017.
“A computer called ‘The Beast’ is untangling religion,” Futurity, June 14, 2017.
“What Computer Modeling Can Tell Us About Religion,” BU Today, June 1, 2017.
“Big data et religions [Big Data and Religion],” Radio Suisse, May 21, 2017.
“Atheism, the Computer Model,” Nautilus, February 16, 2017.
“Quand le big data prédit l’avenir des religions [When Big Data Predicts the Future of Religion],” Cath, March 4, 2017.
“VMASC Researchers Host Archaeologists from Around the World, Examining 3D Visualization of Ancient Settlement,” Old Dominion University News, November 9, 2016.
“From Muslims to Ebola, Conservatives Always Want to Terrify Us About Something,” Forward OpEd, September 6, 2016.
“Computer Modeling Religious Violence,” Religion for Breakfast vlog, April 19, 2016.
“Using Computer Models to Study Religion?” Religion for Breakfast vlog, April 12, 2016.
“Theologist Wesley Wildman Speaking at Drew University,” Madison Patch, March 23, 2015.
“Exploring the Spiritual Experience,” BU Today, January 24, 2014.
“Taking a Scientific Look Inside Religion to Liberals and Conservatives to Get Along,” Focus Magazine, Spring 2013.
“Start-Up Indiana Church Uses Sex to Sell Message,” USA Today, February 13, 2011.
“Religion Meets Science,” Boston Globe, January 24, 2011.
“The Neuroscientist and the Theologian,” BU Today, January 20, 2011.
Media Mentions
“Indoor climate in the Stone Age: Harmful air quality in Çatalhöyük,” Baublatt, July 6, 2021.
“Thor ready for action – a supercomputer at UwB,” bia24, July 9, 2021.
“Don’t Fence Me In: Religion & Spirituality Books for 2021,” Publishers Weekly, March 19, 2021.
“Artificial Intelligence Expert Explains How Big Tech Manipulates What You Think,” The Federalist, March 12, 2021.
“Computing & Data Sciences Now Accepting Applications for Its New PhD Program,” BU Today, December 4, 2020.
“The Modeling Religion Project Connects AI to Policy,” Government CIO Media, July 30, 2018.
“AI Being Used to Model Impacts of Mass Immigration,” Tru News, July 26, 2018.
“Intelligence Artificielle Contre Le Terrorisme: Attention Aux Faux Espoirs,” Atlantico, July 25, 2018.