The Church that wants to build God

The Church that wants to build God

Belief in the Future

What if AI and religion had a converging relationship rather than a parallel one? In Professor Beth Singler's new book, Religion and Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction, she explores how enmeshed technology and religion are in our current era, and how we as a society may be heading toward the creation and worship of a god-like AI.  


Reading list: 

Roko’s Basilisk or Pascal’s? Thinking of Singularity Thought Experiments as Implicit Religion

The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence

Existential Conversations with Large Language Models: Content, Community, and Culture

The Turing Church

Theta Noir

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