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 ReligionThe TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligenceExistential Conversations with Large Language Models: Content, Community, and CultureThe Turing ChurchTheta Noir Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices