Benjamin Crockett is a member of the Partnerships Team at Longbeard, an AI company focused on building and scaling AI for human flourishing. He previously directed the Alexandria Digitization Hub in Rome, digitizing the written patrimony of the Catholic Church and making it accessible to all, creating the largest Catholic dataset in the world. Prior to that, his interest in the intersection of technology and the Vatican brought him to Rome, where he introduced virtual reality to the EWTN Vatican Bureau. A California native, he studied at UC Berkeley and later at Harvard Divinity School, where he focused on the ethical implications of emerging technologies.