Apocalyptic AI

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-19-539302-6
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 537 g

Apocalyptic AI, the hope that we might one day upload our minds into machines and live forever in cyberspace, is a surprisingly wide-spread and influential idea, affecting everything from the world view of online gamers to government research funding and philosophical thought. In Apocalyptic AI, Robert Geraci offers the first serious account of this ¨cyber-theology¨ and the people who promote it, drawing on interviews with roboticists and AI researchers and even devotees of the online game Second Life. He points out that the rhetoric of Apocalyptic AI is strikingly similar to that of the apocalyptic traditions of Judaism and Christianity--in both systems the believer is trapped in a dualistic universe and expects a resolution in which he or she will be translated to a transcendent new world and live forever in a glorified new body. Geraci also shows how this worldview exerts significant influence by promoting certain types of research in robotics and artificial intelligence, and has also had an impact on philosophers of mind, theologians, and even legal scholars.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Geraci

Geraci, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Virtuelle Realität, Erweiterte Realität
• Technische Wissenschaften Elektronik | Nachrichtentechnik Elektronik Robotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction
n 1.Apocalyptic AI
2.: Laboratory Apocalypse
3.: Transcending Reality
4.: "Immaterial" Impact of the Apoclaypse
5.: Integrations of Religion, Science, and Technology
Appendix 1: Rise of the Robots
Appendix 2: In the Defense of Robotics
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Robert M. Geraci is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Manhattan College.