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Artificial Religion: On Ai, Myth, and Power

Artificial Religion: On Ai, Myth, and Power

Coeckelbergh, Mark

Paperback

Religion General Technology & EngineeringGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0262052210
ISBN13: 9780262052214
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Apr 14 2026
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.21 Depth: 7.96
Language: English
How AI is shaped by Western religious culture and universal existential aspirations--and why we think we need it in the first place.

Artificial Religion argues that to fully understand our puzzling relation to AI, we must first look at the religious and existential background of our thinking about machines. Mapping some surprising connections between our history of thought about machines and Western religious narratives to political issues and existential human needs and aspirations, Mark Coeckelbergh offers a better understanding of our relationship to machines and why we think we need them at all.

The book is unique in not just discussing the myth of AI in terms of its technical limitations and the power of Big Tech but also revealing the deeper cultural grammar of AI--that is, the religious patterns of thinking and existential aspirations that are often not visible but still haunt Western thinking and shape its technological culture. Moreover, this is done in a way that sheds critical light on the power of AI.

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