It may seem like a tall order, but the pioneers of artificial intelligence need to get into religion.
I say this not to scold them, nor even out of fear for their immortal souls. My concern in this instance is more practical: Many of America’s most successful businessmen are intensely attracted to the idea of using advanced technologies to refashion the human species. And without some kind of religious belief, they will probably make a mess of it.
The explosion of AI has gotten a lot of tech magnates thinking that an inflection point in human evolution is coming. Elon Musk has been saying for more than a decade that humanity might just be “the biological boot loader for digital superintelligence,” by which he means Homo sapiens could serve as a discardable launch pad for unimaginably stronger and smarter forms of machine life.
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