Humans will happily worship a robot messiah, experts claim

A religion based around a robot god will succeed because humans tend to ‘worship supreme understanding’, experts have claimed.  One researcher has said the same drive that compels people to believe in higher beings and follow religions will also work for so-called AI ‘Godheads’.Others have commented that, like religion, people will eventually rely on a ‘robot messiah’ to solve society’s problems.Last month, former Uber and Google engineer Anthony Levandowski formed the first church to follow an artificially intelligent being.

 

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