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About this site
Pégé Gnóseós — Greek πηγή γνώσεως, “fountain of knowledge” — is a public scholarly presence by Michal Valčo. The title echoes John of Damascus’s eighth-century theological compendium Πηγὴ Γνώσεως, which positioned itself within a tradition of synthesis and faithful encounter with ideas. That’s about the right ambition for this site, too.
The pieces here are adaptations — none of them is written from scratch. Each one extends or recasts work already done for academic publication, course material, conference papers, or a video essay. The argument debuts in peer review; this is where it breathes.
Topics: theological anthropology, philosophy of technology, Christian Personalism, the ethics of artificial intelligence, and what those four have to say to each other.
Pronunciation — Pégé Gnóseós reads roughly “PEH-geh g’NOH-seh-os”: Modern Greek transliteration ofπηγή γνώσεως.
About Michal Valčo
Michal Valčo is Professor of Theology at the Department of Church History, Evangelical Lutheran Theological Faculty, Comenius University in Bratislava. His scholarly work sits at the intersection of theological anthropology, historical theology, and the ethics of advanced technology — held together by a single preoccupation: what artificial intelligence is doing to the way human beings understand themselves and live with one another.
The lenses he reaches for first are Christian Personalism and relational ontology — the position that persons are constitutively relational rather than autonomous individuals who later choose to associate. Kierkegaard, Bonhoeffer, and Charles Taylor remain steady companions; the Cappadocian Fathers and a Neo-Aristotelian account of virtue and human flourishing supply the deeper background. In recent years he has been moving fromtheorizing about artificial intelligence to building AI systems — agentic architectures whose memory, judgment, and ontological assumptions can be inspected, debugged, and held accountable. The same rigor that parses a medieval theological argument can, it turns out, parse the code that increasingly shapes everyday life.
Beyond Comenius University, he serves as Slovakia’s National Contact Point for UNESCO’s International Research Centre on Artificial Intelligence (IRCAI). Until 2025 he was also a member of the Slovak Ministry of Investments’ Permanent Committee for Ethics and AI Regulation. He has held research and visiting appointments at Oxford, the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Charles University in Prague, the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, and Roanoke College in Virginia. He was elected to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2015. Pégé Gnóseós is where the work that begins in peer-reviewed venues comes up for air — translated, adapted, and sent out to readers who care about these questions and don’t read peer-reviewed venues as a matter of course.
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Email — valcovci@gmail.com. The site does not have comments; if a piece sets off a real thought, an email is the right place for it.
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Some Published Work entries link to books or articles through publisher author-affiliate programs (currently: Springer / Palgrave). Where this is the case, the link is marked and the standard disclosure appears at the foot of the page. Site code is licensed under MIT; content is all rights reserved by the author unless noted otherwise on a particular post.