Ex-Google engineer Andrew Lewandowski created a sect that worshiping artificial intelligence

Andrew Lewandowski, who worked as an engineer at Google, created a religious movement. The deity in it is artificial intelligence, which in the end should lead humanity into a brighter future, writes The Guardian.

The organization is called "The Way of the Future" and so far there are few details about it. It is known that Lewandowski organized it to bring together people who will be engaged in programming a new deity. The official motto of the organization is roughly like "To develop and promote God based on artificial intelligence. Through worshiping him and understanding him to go to a better future. "

The edition leads the opinion of experts in support of the idea of Lewandowski that the deities changed over time. This is influenced by current technologies, the development of society, the level of knowledge. Historian Yuval Noah Harari writes that the deities of the hunter gatherers differed from the deities of those who engaged in agriculture. The peasants and factory workers also had different views of paradise. According to world history, the deity once again should be replaced. Probably, the AI is one of the candidates for the change.

Futurist Ray Kurzweil, believes that the singularity will eventually lead to the fact that the entire human consciousness can be copied and transferred to the machine, which is in fact a repetition of the idea of immortality. Christopher Benek does not comment on the idea of replacing God AI, but says that in itself AI does not contradict Christian values. This technology, like any other, allows you to do both good and evil.

Harari believes that in the near future technology companies will become new rulers, and two new religions will come to the forefront - techno-humanism and dateism (data worship). In such a concept of the future sect Lewandowski fits perfectly.