There’s a Basilisk in the Bathwater: AI and the Apocalyptic Imagination

Deciding what to make of secular, religious, and spiritual speculations about AI and digital technologies can be overwhelming, and focusing on the extreme utopic or dystopic outcomes may be obscuring the larger facts. Is this technology a beautiful blessing or a damning curse? What can paying close...

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Autor principal: Isbrücker, Avery (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Publicado: 2024
En: Religions
Año: 2024, Volumen: 15, Número: 5
Otras palabras clave:B algorithmic spirituality
B Singularity
B Transhumanism
B Apocalypticism
B enchanted determinism
B Roko’s Basilisk
B Ai
B Eschatology
B Speculation
B Superintelligence
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