Religion and Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction: Engaging with Religion
Autor Beth Singleren Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 oct 2024
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rarely out of the news or the public imagination. Images of red-eyed Terminators illustrate press accounts of incremental advances in medical diagnosis, facial recognition, natural language processing, and robotics. Such advances are transforming society through measurable impacts on people’s decisions and opportunities.
Religion and Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction explores an emerging field with a religious studies approach, drawing on cultural and digital anthropological methods to demonstrate the entanglements of religion and AI, our imaginaries of these objects and our ideas about their utopian or dystopian futures. It addresses key topics, including the following:
- What AI is and is not.
- How religions are reacting to AI with examples of rejection, adoption, and adaptation.
- How established religions understand creation and place human-like AI within that.
- How overtly secular and even ‘new atheist’ groups understand AI as a tool for liberation from human evolution and religion.
- Religious visions of superintelligent AI.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under A creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781032187631
ISBN-10: 1032187638
Pagini: 228
Dimensiuni: 174 x 246 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Engaging with Religion
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1032187638
Pagini: 228
Dimensiuni: 174 x 246 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Engaging with Religion
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate CoreCuprins
1. Introduction 2. Rejection 3. Adoption 4. Adaptation 5. AI, Religion, and Transhumanism 6. AI New Religious Movements 7. Religion, Creation, and Posthumanism 8. Entanglements, Imaginaries, and Futures. Index
Recenzii
"Beth Singler has crafted a comprehensive yet highly readable survey of religion and AI that includes a wide range of religious traditions and thoughtful discussion cues to get the most reluctant student talking. As either a textbook or as an introduction to the entanglement of religion and AI for the curious reader, this book offers a wide variety of ‘case studies’ to raise questions and challenge our ideas about religion and technology that the reader will find compelling. Singler takes the time to explain and problematize certain terms early on and is rigorous in her scholarship yet manages a narrative-like quality that is very gratifying. This book is an important contribution to the rapidly growing discourse on artificial intelligence." - Juli L. Gittinger, Georgia College & State University, USA
"There is currently both great excitement and widespread social concern about AI, including its implications for religion. In this dispassionate and informative book, Singler approaches the relationship between the two as a social scientist, and examines their complex “entanglements”, including rejection, adoption, and adaptation. She has provided a much-needed educational resource on one of the most pressing current topics at the intersection of religion and science."
- The International Society for Science and Religion Awards, Winner, Books for Professionals and Educators Category
"Beth Singler has crafted a comprehensive yet highly readable survey of religion and AI that includes a wide range of religious traditions and thoughtful discussion cues to get the most reluctant student talking. As either a textbook or as an introduction to the entanglement of religion and AI for the curious reader, this book offers a wide variety of ‘case studies’ to raise questions and challenge our ideas about religion and technology that the reader will find compelling. Singler takes the time to explain and problematize certain terms early on and is rigorous in her scholarship yet manages a narrative-like quality that is very gratifying. This book is an important contribution to the rapidly growing discourse on artificial intelligence."
- Juli L. Gittinger, Georgia College & State University, USA
"There is currently both great excitement and widespread social concern about AI, including its implications for religion. In this dispassionate and informative book, Singler approaches the relationship between the two as a social scientist, and examines their complex “entanglements”, including rejection, adoption, and adaptation. She has provided a much-needed educational resource on one of the most pressing current topics at the intersection of religion and science."
- The International Society for Science and Religion Awards, Winner, Books for Professionals and Educators Category
"Beth Singler has crafted a comprehensive yet highly readable survey of religion and AI that includes a wide range of religious traditions and thoughtful discussion cues to get the most reluctant student talking. As either a textbook or as an introduction to the entanglement of religion and AI for the curious reader, this book offers a wide variety of ‘case studies’ to raise questions and challenge our ideas about religion and technology that the reader will find compelling. Singler takes the time to explain and problematize certain terms early on and is rigorous in her scholarship yet manages a narrative-like quality that is very gratifying. This book is an important contribution to the rapidly growing discourse on artificial intelligence."
- Juli L. Gittinger, Georgia College & State University, USA
Notă biografică
Beth Singler is the Assistant Professor in Digital Religion(s) at the University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland; co-lead of the Media Existential Encounters and Evolving Technology Lab at UZH; an Associate Professor at the Digital Society Initiative at UZH; a Fellow of the International Society for Science and Religion; and a member of the Human Augmentation Research Network.
Descriere
This engaging book is essential for anyone considering the relationship between religion, science and technology, and interested in the questions raised by transhumanism, posthumanism, and new religious movements.