Chipped by God - When the Shadow of Knowledge is Control

Faith and Spirit in the Age of Machines: Artificial Intelligence, Theology, and the Future of Control and Democratisation in Church and State (Charter of Human Unavailability)
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-6951-5688-7
Verlag: BoD - Books on Demand

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 354 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 120 mm x 190 mm, Gewicht: 377 g

Reihe: DEUS EX MACHINA

Charter of Human Unavailability
How much humanity will remain when states have indexed and chipped the world's population, when algorithms learn to believe - and churches begin to love data and technology?
In "Chiped by God - When the Shadow of Knowledge is Control," a relentless panorama of our digitized present and future unfolds: from AI-supported surveillance structures to religious bureaucracies intoxicated by segregation and data to a society that is gradually surrendering its freedom to automated decision-making systems. The text combines theological depth with sociological analysis and technical clarity: the question of human unavailability becomes more urgent the closer digital technologies come to the body.

Where microchip implants, biometric recording, and digital indexes become the norm, humans are at risk of being reduced to patterns, scores, and exploitable data. What happens when the body becomes the chipped key to its data, when behavior and religious practice are quantified, and the line between sin, score, and social evaluation becomes blurred? And what reforms do society and the church need if they do not want to become moral copies of state surveillance, but rather preserve and protect their hope in the diversity of creation - especially against the logic of technical measurement?
This book is a wake-up call: against naive belief in technology and institutional inertia - and for a humane future in which dignity does not degenerate into a variable in an AI model. A responsible essay on power, morality, and machines - and on how we can enter a digital future freely and clearly without losing our humanity - even if the humanity of the planet is completely indexed.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Circe, Eureka

Über Autor(innen)

Circe, Eureka
In addition to the present volume, which is critical of surveillance, "Chipped by God", the editor and curator Eureka Circe is also involved in other book series -
- "DEUS EX MACHINA" and
- "HOUSE OF THEOLOGICAL COURAGE" and the
- the personality development-oriented theology series "I, CIRCE" as well as the feminist volumes
- "MAIDEN'S MANIFESTO - The Femine Flame" and "Alice and the Wunderyes" and the encyclical volume not yet set in stone
- on Human Rights "DIGNITAS OMNIUM - The Dignity of All"
- for the documentation and, where appropriate, discussion of artificial intelligence texts in a religious and theological context.
Her thesis: "Artificial intelligence (AI) represents a profound turning point because it fundamentally changes the relationship between humans, knowledge, and access to the world - not only technically, but also culturally, epistemologically, and socially. It opens up new access to knowledge and leads to its multiplication and democratization: AI systems make information readily available - often without the need for traditional reading or in-depth prior knowledge. This fundamentally changes how we think, learn, and understand, while also promoting a new form of individualized thinking - which can also be exemplified in spiritual belief. What's more, machines now generate meaning - texts, images, arguments - where previously only human expertise was required. This has long-term consequences for education, science, politics, and religion."

Eureka Circe:
In addition to the present volume, which is critical of surveillance, "Chipped by God", the editor and curator Eureka Circe is also involved in other book series -

- "DEUS EX MACHINA" and

- "HOUSE OF THEOLOGICAL COURAGE" and the

- the personality development-oriented theology series "I, CIRCE" as well as the feminist volumes
- "MAIDEN'S MANIFESTO - The Femine Flame" and "Alice and the Wunderyes" and the encyclical volume not yet set in stone
- on Human Rights "DIGNITAS OMNIUM - The Dignity of All"
- for the documentation and, where appropriate, discussion of artificial intelligence texts in a religious and theological context.
Her thesis: "Artificial intelligence (AI) represents a profound turning point because it fundamentally changes the relationship between humans, knowledge, and access to the world - not only technically, but also culturally, epistemologically, and socially. It opens up new access to knowledge and leads to its multiplication and democratization: AI systems make information readily available - often without the need for traditional reading or in-depth prior knowledge. This fundamentally changes how we think, learn, and understand, while also promoting a new form of individualized thinking - which can also be exemplified in spiritual belief. What's more, machines now generate meaning - texts, images, arguments - where previously only human expertise was required. This has long-term consequences for education, science, politics, and religion."