Bibliograph

Staying human, a Jewish theology for the age of artificial intelligence, Harris Bor

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Staying human, a Jewish theology for the age of artificial intelligence, Harris Bor

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Staying human

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Harris Bor

Sub title

a Jewish theology for the age of artificial intelligence

Summary

Futurists speculate that we are heading towards a 'singularity,' where AI will outsmart human beings, and humanity will coalesce into a single, ever-expanding mind for which data is everything. The idea mirrors conceptions of God as everything, singular, and all-knowing. But is this idea of the singularity, or God, good for humanity? Oneness has its attractions. But what space does it leave for individuality and difference? In this book, British-Jewish theologian, Harris Bor, explores these questions by applying approaches to oneness and difference found in the thought of philosophers, Benedict Spinoza (1632-1677) and Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), to the challenges of religious belief and practice in the era of AI. What emerges is a dynamic religion of the everyday capable of balancing all aspects of being, while holding tight to a God who is both singular and wholly other, and which urges us, above all, to stay human

Target audience

adult

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