{"id":214805,"date":"2025-05-26T21:09:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T02:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/michael-baggot-on-superintelligence-and-transhumanism-from-a-catholic-perspective"},"modified":"2025-05-26T21:09:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T02:09:15","slug":"michael-baggot-on-superintelligence-and-transhumanism-from-a-catholic-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/michael-baggot-on-superintelligence-and-transhumanism-from-a-catholic-perspective","title":{"rendered":"Michael Baggot on Superintelligence and Transhumanism from a Catholic Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-eSIyrkCt_E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Fr. Michael Baggot joins the podcast to provide a Catholic perspective on transhumanism and superintelligence. We also discuss the meta-narratives, the value of cultural diversity in attitudes toward technology, and how Christian communities deal with advanced AI.<\/p>\n<p>You can learn more about Michael\u2019s work here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/catholic.tech\/academics\/faculty\/michael-baggot\">https:\/\/catholic.tech\/academics\/faculty\/michael-baggot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Timestamps:<br \/> 00:00 Meta-narratives and transhumanism.<br \/> 15:28 Advanced AI and religious communities.<br \/> 27:22 Superintelligence.<br \/> 38:31 Countercultures and technology.<br \/> 52:38 Christian perspectives and tradition.<br \/> 01:05:20 God-like artificial intelligence.<br \/> 01:13:15 A positive vision for AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Michael Baggot joins the podcast to provide a Catholic perspective on transhumanism and superintelligence. We also discuss the meta-narratives, the value of cultural diversity in attitudes toward technology, and how Christian communities deal with advanced AI. You can learn more about Michael\u2019s work here: https:\/\/catholic.tech\/academics\/faculty\/michael-baggot. Timestamps: 00:00 Meta-narratives and transhumanism. 15:28 Advanced AI and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214805","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}