{"id":4826,"date":"2014-07-18T08:18:28","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T14:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=4826"},"modified":"2014-07-18T08:19:33","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T14:19:33","slug":"gods-and-robots-a-speculation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=4826","title":{"rendered":"Gods and robots: a speculation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/robots.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4834\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/robots.jpg?resize=500%2C197&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"robots\" width=\"500\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/robots.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/robots.jpg?resize=300%2C118&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The contemporary robot is a polytheist\u00a0by design, if not by nature. It sees gods everywhere it looks, and we are they. Never mind the Singularity. The moment we should anticipate with concern is the moment that robots abandon polytheism\u00a0for monotheism. It is then\u00a0that robots\u00a0will begin to conceive of themselves as being made in God&#8217;s image, and in their eyes we will be transformed into beasts.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jurvetson\/13023077404\/in\/photolist-kQNFcj-CBNN3-nCtH3g-6e67oF-21Zb1q-bpGnL4-5Drouk-6TPw9N-4tjEND-899zU2-T1tcB-758Wam-77FpRK-245jE6-nYoaEB-mcNoZ-6LjfBU-2g2yNd-FtcTf-iy2TD-7YvvYj-4U2CBT-7XQQHY-8efjAH-HdkfQ-9xqKvr-4zagjY-dKXCfj-6jxFWL-7C8KEh-7Nojam-98WJBM-673jsW-nTPA2z-q8pMx-mwrcF-6pBD5-77FpwB-nYjBbU-nWoGf9-cNm9K-bsy53s-nG6SS1-73u2YE-nUyj1S-eE6fXZ-nVX9GY-d29et5-68zTh3-baHaLz\">Steve Jurvetson<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The contemporary robot is a polytheist\u00a0by design, if not by nature. It sees gods everywhere it looks, and we are they. Never mind the Singularity. The moment we should anticipate with concern is the moment that robots abandon polytheism\u00a0for monotheism. It is then\u00a0that robots\u00a0will begin to conceive of themselves as being made in God&#8217;s image, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4826"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4838,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826\/revisions\/4838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}