Apocalyptic AI and the Rise of Robotics

Where religion meets robotics and artificial intelligence
Dr. Robert M Geraci
 Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Manhattan College
robert.geraci (at) manhattan.edu

Investing in the future:

°   Take the survey on Second Life and religion!

This hour, now upon us:

°  Looking for signs of the Apocalypse at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute and in Second Life

°  Rewriting the study of religion, science & technology

                                                                     

The mythical past:

° "Apocalyptic AI: Religion and the
Promise of Artificial Intelligence."
Journal of the American Academy
of Religion 76:1 (2008)

° "Cultural Prestige: Popular Science
Robotics as Religion-Science Hybrd."
Reconfigurations: Interdisciplinary
Perspectives on Religion in a Post-
Secular Society (2007)

° "Spiritual Robots: Religion and  
Our Scientific View of the Natural
World." Theology and Science 4:3
(2006)

° "Robots and the Sacred in Science and Science Fiction:Theological Implications of
Artificial Intelligence." Zygon: Journal of
Religion and Science 42: 4 (2007)