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Beth Singler: Religion and AI -- Theisms and Conspiricisms

Drawing on recent ethnographic and transdisciplinary research, this talk will describe and begin to provide a framework and typologies for thinking about emerging spiritualities and religious improvisations in the entanglements of AI and religion. Connecting individuals, movements, and ideologies, this seminar will also delve into some of the most contemporary political and aspirational influences on people’s conceptions of AI and where it is headed. Ontological, eschatological, and teleological impulses in AI discourse will be explored, as well as emerging cultural phenomena such as the concept of the ‘Woke Mind Virus’, ‘the Network State’, and the ‘NPC meme’ and their connection to older religious and metaphysical ideas such as hyperstition, egregores and tulpas. AI theisms, religious improvisations, and new religious movements are increasingly visible and influencing the overall conversation about what AI and where it is going.