How Silicon Valley Is Using Religious Language To Talk About AI

https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-religion-apocalypse-ec449ccedbf8054764547356757ff335

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sad_detective_man@leminal.space · 14 pts · 1y

glad someone's pointing this weird shit out. everyone so far has just been yes-anding these creeps

queermunist@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 1y (3 replies)

They only just noticed this?

I'm pretty sure Sam Altman and the TESCREAL bundle explicitly preach that they are "building God."

sundray@lemmus.org · 8 pts · 1y

Oh yeah, the entire Valley has gone accelerationist, but I guess the media just now picked up on it?

Blaster_M@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

They try to build their own god. It will fail.

queermunist@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 1y

Every religion builds their own god, and when their Messiah doesn't come they'll just make a new prophecy. We've seen this all before.

Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
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NoodlePoint@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

-- The Orange Catholic Bible, from Dune

omgboom@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y

AI is the ultimate idol, a God made with their own hands.

paulbg@programming.dev · 1 pts · 1y

technocracy made us to successfully move beyond traditional structures to embrace a new model of governance built on technology and data.