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- How AI is shaped by Western religious culture and universal existential aspirations--and why we think we need it in the first place.
- About the Author: Mark Coeckelbergh is Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology at the University of Vienna and ERA Chair at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
- 200 Pages
- Social Science,
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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 how we think about machines and Western religious narratives to political issues and existential human needs and aspirations, Mark Coeckelbergh looks back through history to offer a better understanding of how we think about machines and why we think we need them at all. The book is unique in talking not just about the myth of AI in terms of its technical limitations and the power of Big Tech, but in 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 also sheds critical light on the power of AI.About the Author
Mark Coeckelbergh is Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology at the University of Vienna and ERA Chair at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He is the author of numerous books, including Growing Moral Relations, New Romantic Cyborgs, AI Ethics, Robot Ethics, The Political Philosophy of AI, and Why AI Undermines Democracy and What to Do About It.Dimensions (Overall): 8.0 Inches (H) x 5.25 Inches (W)
Weight: .81 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 200
Genre: Social Science
Publisher: MIT Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Mark Coeckelbergh
Language: English
Street Date: April 7, 2026
TCIN: 1005334863
UPC: 9780262052214
Item Number (DPCI): 247-32-2668
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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