{"id":73573,"date":"2017-10-29T03:02:29","date_gmt":"2017-10-29T10:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/the-new-religions-obsessed-with-a-i"},"modified":"2017-10-29T03:02:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T10:02:29","slug":"the-new-religions-obsessed-with-a-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/the-new-religions-obsessed-with-a-i","title":{"rendered":"The New Religions Obsessed with A.I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-new-religions-obsessed-with-a-i.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How far should we integrate human physiology with technology? What do we do with self-aware androids\u2014like Blade Runner\u2019s replicants\u2014and self-aware supercomputers? Or the merging of our brains with them? If Ray Kurzweil\u2019s famous singularity\u2014a future in which the exponential growth of technology turns into a runaway train\u2014becomes a reality, does religion have something to offer in response?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Yes, not only is A.I. potentially taking all of our jobs, but it\u2019s also changing religion.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/author\/brandon-withrow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-new-religions-obsessed-with-a-i2.jpg\" alt=\"Brandon Withrow\"\/><\/a><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/author\/brandon-withrow\">Brandon Withrow<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/the-new-religions-obsessed-with-ai\">https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/the-new-religions-obsessed-with-ai<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How far should we integrate human physiology with technology? What do we do with self-aware androids\u2014like Blade Runner\u2019s replicants\u2014and self-aware supercomputers? Or the merging of our brains with them? If Ray Kurzweil\u2019s famous singularity\u2014a future in which the exponential growth of technology turns into a runaway train\u2014becomes a reality, does religion have something to offer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,2018,6,64,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-ray-kurzweil","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73573","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}