{"id":1020,"date":"2019-03-17T12:46:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T12:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techclot.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/17\/a-new-religion-ai-is-our-new-god\/"},"modified":"2019-03-17T12:46:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T12:46:19","slug":"a-new-religion-ai-is-our-new-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techclot.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/17\/a-new-religion-ai-is-our-new-god\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Religion: AI is Our New God?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“<\/span>Unlike most religions, which seek to connect people with the past, this one seeks to connect them with the future, the imagined \u201csingularity\u201d of runaway artificial intelligence.”<\/span> <\/blockquote>

— Mike Faille<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There are reasons to be sceptical of The Way of the Future, a newly incorporated American religion that worships artificial intelligence as \u201cthe Godhead.\u201d<\/p>\n

It has no church, no worshipers, no doctrine, no scripture, and no rituals. But Anthony Levandowksi, the multi-millionaire engineer who secretly founded it in 2015, and today serves as president and CEO, has a track record of predicting and capitalizing on the future, as he did for example in the self-driving car industry.<\/p>\n

The Way of the Future, a non-profit religious corporation in California, says its purpose is \u201cTo develop and promote the realization of a Godhead based on artificial intelligence and through understanding and worship of the Godhead contribute to the betterment of society,\u201d according to records obtained by Wired magazine.<\/p>\n

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Worshipping the artificial intelligence of computers sounds far-fetched, even for a religion, but it builds on a faith in the power of technology that already flirts with messianic dreams and apocalyptic visions.<\/p>\n