1st Edition

AI Theism Technology, Divinity, and the Emergence of a New Religious Myth

By Remington Tonar Copyright 2027
320 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

AI Theism examines stories in which artificially intelligent characters are depicted as divine through the lens of religious studies and mythology. Narratives in which conscious technologies such as artificial intelligences are portrayed as divine have proliferated in parallel with advances in AI and related fields. In these stories, which include both fiction and non-fiction works across... Read more

Introduction  1. Religion, mythology, and AI  2. Existing perspectives on AI myth  3. The evolution of theistic AI narratives  4. New myths for the age of AI  5. The theological permissibility of theistic AI  6. The scientific plausibility of theistic AI  7. Comparing and classifying AI myths  8. AI myth as a new category of myth  9. AI myth as a secular form of religious myth  10. The implications of AI myth for religion, science, and mythology  Bibliography  Index.

Biography

 Remington Tonar holds a PhD in Religious Studies from the University of Aberdeen, UK, where he studied under noted mythologist Robert Segal. He is an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at Rice University, USA, and co-founder of Cart.com.