VIA THE MESSENGER:
A church dedicated to worshiping and developing artificial intelligence called Way of the Future is coming back to life.
The religious institution is the brainchild of former Google and Uber engineer Anthony Levandowski. In a new interview with Bloomberg, Levandowski said that the Way of the Future now has a “couple thousand people” among its members.
The church’s revival comes after Levandowski had closed it down in 2021. Originally founded in 2015, Levandowski described Way of the Future as an organization for people who value progress.
The reboot comes as AI accelerates, thanks, in large part, to the explosion in popularity of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and the chaos engulfing the AI industry as OpenAI’s internal drama continues to unfold.
“For the last 4 billion years we’ve had organic lifeforms, [but] now, for the first time things are changing and we’re going to have inorganic life forms,” Levandowski told Bloomberg. “We don’t know what [these inorganic life forms] are going to be, [but] we’re going to fuse it with all these magical powers, and we want it to give us things.”
Levandowski is a tech optimist, and believes that AI has the potential to create “heaven on Earth” for humans.
“Religions have been about telling stories, either creating legends or writing scriptures overtime, and creating that experience for the community without any real evidence,” he said. “Here, we’re actually creating things they can see, be everywhere and maybe help us and guide us in a way normally you would call God.”
He believes that thanks to AI, humans will soon “actually talk to God and God can talk back to you.”
