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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.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Religion: general

• Full title: Apocalyptic AI
• Subtitle: Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality
• Author: Robert Geraci
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 248
• EAN: 9780195393026
• ISBN: 0195393023
• ID: 04519240
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Weight: 491 g
• Dimensions: 242 × 162 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 18. March 2010

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