Dr. Jason D. Batt
Jason D. Batt, Ph.D. is a technological philosopher, mythologist, and futurist exploring how artificial intelligence, depth psychology, and space exploration shape the evolution of human consciousness. He serves on the Lifeboat Foundation’s Futurists, Media & Arts, Religion & Spirituality, and Space Settlement Boards, contributing insight on existential risk, long-range civilization design, and the narratives that guide humanity’s adaptation to transformative technologies.
Jason is the Cofounder of the Deep Space Predictive Research Group, which develops behavioral and AI frameworks for performance in extreme environments, and Project Lodestar, an initiative focused on the ethical and philosophical implications of humanity’s expansion beyond Earth. His interdisciplinary work bridges cognitive science, mythic systems, and foresight studies to create integrative approaches for human-machine collaboration and future-ready leadership.
From 2013 to 2025, Jason served as Creative and Editorial Director for the DARPA-seeded initiative 100 Year Starship, where he founded the Canopus Awards for Excellence in Interstellar Writing and edited more than 2,500 pages of interstellar research proceedings. His editorial leadership connected scientists, engineers, and artists in global dialogue around humanity’s long-term future in space, producing a decade of foundational thought in interstellar ethics, psychology, and systems design.
In parallel, Jason leads scholarly work at the intersection of mythology, psychology, and culture as Cofounder of the International Society of Mythology, Senior Editor of the Journal of Mythology, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Space Philosophy. He teaches through Morbid Anatomy, offering courses such as Soul and the Machine: Depth Psychology, Myth, and AI and How Aliens Might Dream: The Discipline of Xenomythology—examining how myth evolves in an age of artificial consciousness and interplanetary futures.
He is co-editor of Soul and the Machine: AI, Depth Psychology, and Mythology (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025), editor of Visions of the Future (Lifeboat Foundation, 2015), and co-editor of Strange California (Falstaff Books, 2017) and the Canopus Award Anthology (2023). His essays and fiction have appeared in Renascence, Room: The Space Journal, Mythological Studies Journal, Astrosociological Insights, and Journal of Space Philosophy, as well as in edited volumes including Winning Westeros (University of Nebraska Press, 2019) and Religion and Outer Space (Routledge, 2023).
Jason holds a Ph.D. in Mythological Studies with Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. His work integrates symbolic thought, speculative science, and humanistic foresight to illuminate how meaning and myth will guide humanity’s next evolutionary horizon.
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