{"id":12504,"date":"2014-10-30T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T16:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12504"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:04:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:04:03","slug":"why-artificial-intelligence-is-the-future-of-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/why-artificial-intelligence-is-the-future-of-religion","title":{"rendered":"Why artificial intelligence is the future of religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"byline\"><a class=\"gaTrackLinkEvent\" href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/writer\/michael_schulson\/\" rel=\"author\" data-ga-track-json=\"[&quot;author&quot;,&quot;click&quot;, &quot;Michael Schulson&quot;]\">Michael Schulson<\/a>, Religion Dispatches<\/span> \u2014 Salon<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>There are places you never expect to be in life. For me, this was certainly one of them: in a conference room in suburban Charlotte on the campus of Southern Evangelical Seminary, with an enormous old Bible on a side table, shelves of Great Books lining the walls, and, on the conference table itself, a 23-inch-tall robot doing yoga.<\/p>\n<p>Meet the Digitally Advanced Viritual Intelligence Device, a NAO (<em>now<\/em>) robot known as \u201cD.A.V.I.D.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/09\/14\/what_robot_theology_tells_us_about_ourselves_partner\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Schulson, Religion Dispatches \u2014 Salon There are places you never expect to be in life. For me, this was certainly one of them: in a conference room in suburban Charlotte on the campus of Southern Evangelical Seminary, with an enormous old Bible on a side table, shelves of Great Books lining the walls, and, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12504"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64881,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12504\/revisions\/64881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}