If you read my blog you certainly know my thoughts towards religion, anyway I had a big WTF moment earlier when I read this article.

Some faith-bound Americans want to make sure any superintelligence we create knows about God. And if you think the idea of preaching God to autonomous machines sounds crazy, you may be overlooking key statistics of U.S. demographics: roughly 75 percent of adult Americans identify themselves as some denomination of Christianity. In the U.S. Congress, 92 percent of our highest politicians belong to a Christian faith.

As artificial intelligence advances, religious questions and concerns globally are bound to come up, and they’re starting too: Some theologians and futurists are already considering whether AI can also know God.

“I don’t see Christ’s redemption limited to human beings,” Reverend Dr. Christopher J. Benektold me in a recent interview. Benek is an Associate Pastor of Providence Presbyterian Church in Florida and holds masters degrees in divinity and theology from Princeton University.

“It’s redemption to all of creation, even AI,” he said. “If AI is autonomous, then we have should encourage it to participate in Christ’s redemptive purposes in the world.”

Source: Gizmodo

I certainly hope that if we are able to create AI, that it would see the concept of a human god is ludicrous. I mean at a minimum it’ll have access to all the knowledge we’ve gained as a species then it’ll have its own logical mind, there just isn’t any evidence for a creator.  Yes there are many things that we don’t know but to say “god did it” is a cop out if that’s the reason, then why bother trying to learn anything.

To me the sooner we cast off this iron age bull shit the better, we’ll still find things to kill over but there will be one less reason at least.