Apocalyptic AI: Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality
by Robert M. Geraci
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Apocalyptic AI, the hope that we might one day upload our minds into machines or cyberspace and live forever, 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 with devotees of the online game show more Second Life, among others, Geraci illuminates the ideas of such advocates of Apocalyptic AI as Hans Mor show lessTags
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- Heimreich, Stefan; Herzfeld, Noreen; Touretzsky, David S.
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- Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Technology, General Nonfiction
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- 201.6006 — Religion Religion Religious mythology, general classes of religion, interreligious relations and attitudes, social theology Religions and secular disciplines Special computer methods
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- BL255.5 .G47 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Religions. Mythology. Rationalism Religions. Mythology. Rationalism Natural theology Religion and science
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