AI, Religion and Identity #12
Today, I'm joined by Prof. Dr. Beth Singler, Assistant Professor in Digital Religion(s) at the University of Zurich and Rev. Dr. Joshua K. Smith, Pastor and Theologian, to discuss digital religion, and our spiritual identity online.This episode of The Future of You covers:The trends in digital religionHow people are developing communities and ideas about technology onlineHow AI shapes and molds what we are doing spiritually. Our perspective bias at the dawn of a new millenniumAnthropomorphism of AIWhether AI can help us become better moral beingsCorporatist agency, personal agency, and AI politiciansThe ongoing outsourcing of our own decision making to AINihilism, apocalypticism, and the reemergence of the Satanic and occult aesthetic. The Future of You: Can Your Identity Survive 21st Century Technology?: www.amazon.co.uk/Future-You-Identity-21st-Century-Technology-ebook/dp/B08XBN4GBBLinks and references at: www.traceyfollows.com