{"id":72891,"date":"2017-09-28T08:42:31","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T15:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/deus-ex-machina-former-google-engineer-is-developing-an-ai-god"},"modified":"2017-09-28T08:42:31","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T15:42:31","slug":"deus-ex-machina-former-google-engineer-is-developing-an-ai-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/deus-ex-machina-former-google-engineer-is-developing-an-ai-god","title":{"rendered":"Deus ex machina: former Google engineer is developing an AI god"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/deus-ex-machina-former-google-engineer-is-developing-an-ai-god.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interesting story in The Guardian today. Quotes from multiple transhumanists, including myself:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Intranet service? Check. Autonomous motorcycle? Check. Driverless car technology? Check. Obviously the next logical project for a successful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/silicon-valley\" data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" class=\"\">Silicon Valley<\/a> engineer is to set up an AI-worshipping religious organization.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/feb\/23\/anthony-levandowski-google-uber-self-driving-cars-lawsuit\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" class=\"\">Anthony Levandowski<\/a>, who is at the center of a legal battle between Uber and Google\u2019s Waymo, has established a nonprofit religious corporation called Way of the Future, according to state filings first uncovered by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/god-is-a-bot-and-anthony-levandowski-is-his-messenger\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" class=\"\">Wired\u2019s Backchannel<\/a>. Way of the Future\u2019s startling mission: \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<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/sep\/28\/artificial-intelligence-god-anthony-levandowski\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/sep\/28\/artificia...evandowski<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting story in The Guardian today. Quotes from multiple transhumanists, including myself: Intranet service? Check. Autonomous motorcycle? Check. Driverless car technology? Check. Obviously the next logical project for a successful Silicon Valley engineer is to set up an AI-worshipping religious organization. Anthony Levandowski, who is at the center of a legal battle between Uber and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1496,6,1501,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-robotics-ai","category-transhumanism-2","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72891","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\/267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}