{"product_id":"religion-and-artificial-intelligence-9781032187648","title":"Religion and Artificial Intelligence","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInternational Society for Science \u0026amp; Religion's 2025 Book Prize recipient, in the category of books for professionals and educators\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArtificial intelligence (AI) is rarely out of the news or the public imagination. Images of red-eyed Terminators illustrate press accounts of incremental advances in medical diagnosis, facial recognition, natural language processing, and robotics. Such advances are transforming society through measurable impacts on peopleâs decisions and opportunities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReligion and Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction\u003c\/i\u003e 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 the following:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eWhat AI is and is not.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHow religions are reacting to AI with examples of rejection, adoption, and adaptation.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHow established religions understand creation and place human-like AI within that.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHow overtly secular and even ânew atheistâ groups understand AI as a tool for liberation from human evolution and religion.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eReligious visions of superintelligent AI.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Open Access version of this book, available at http:\/\/www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under A creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018886578519,"sku":"9781032187648","price":34.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032187648.jpg?v=1750778527","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/religion-and-artificial-intelligence-9781032187648","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}