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100	1		_aSingler, Beth, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aReligion and Artificial Intelligence : _ban introduction / _cBeth Singler.
263			_a2409
264		1	_aAbingdon, Oxon ; _aNew York, NY: _bRoutledge, _c2025.
300			_aix, 217p.:
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aEngaging with religion
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rarely out of the news and the public's imagination. Images of red-eyed Terminators illustrate press accounts of incremental advances in medical diagnosis, facial recognition, natural language processing, and robotics. Such advances transform society through measurable impacts on people's decisions and opportunities. Religion and Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction explores an emerging field with a religious studies approach, drawing on cultural and digital anthropological methods, to demonstrate the entanglements of religion and AI, our imaginaries of these objects, and our ideas about their utopian or dystopian futures. It addresses key topics including: What AI is and is not How religions are reacting to AI with examples of rejection, adoption, and adaptation How established religions understand creation and place human-like AI within that How overtly secular and even 'New Atheist' groups understand AI as a tool for liberation from human evolution and religion Religious visions of superintelligent AI. This engaging book is essential for anyone considering the relationship between religion, science and technology, and interested in the questions raised by transhumanism, posthumanism, and new religious movements"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aTechnology _xReligious aspects.
650		0	_aArtificial intelligence _xReligious aspects.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aSingler, Beth. _tReligion and Artificial Intelligence _dLondon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025 _z9781003256113 _w(DLC) 2024030959
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