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Artificial Religion : On AI, Myth, and Power / Mark Coeckelbergh
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coeckelbergh, Mark, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (148 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2026]
- System Details:
- Summary:
- Artificial Religion argues that to fully understand our puzzling relation to AI, we must first look at the religious and existential background of our thinking about machines. Mapping some surprising connections between our history of thought about machines and Western religious narratives to political issues and existential human needs and aspirations, Mark Coeckelbergh offers a better understanding of our relationship to machines and why we think we need them at all. The book is unique in not just discussing the myth of AI in terms of its technical limitations and the power of Big Tech but also revealing the deeper cultural “grammar” of AI-that is, the religious patterns of thinking and existential aspirations that are often not visible but still haunt Western thinking and shape its technological culture. Moreover, this is done in a way that sheds critical light on the power of AI.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Prepublication metadata
- ISBN:
- 0-262-05222-9
- 0-262-05223-7
- OCLC:
- 1581933651
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