INTRODUCTION TO THE SYMPOSIUM ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND APOCALYPTICISM: with Robert M. Geraci and Simon Robinson, "Introduction to the Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Apocalypticism"; Beth Singler, "Existential Hope and Existential Despair in AI Apocalypticism and Transhumanism"; Michael Morelli, "The Athenian Altar, the Amazonian Chatbot: A Pauline Reading of Artificial Intelligence and Apocalyptic Ends"; Victoria Lorrimar, "Mind Uploading and Embodied Cognition: A Theological Response"; and Syed Mustafa Ali, "'White Crisis' and/as 'Existential Risk, ' or the Entangled Apocalypticism of Artificial Intelligence.". Issue 1 (17th February 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Geraci, Robert M.; Robinson, Simon
• Is Part Of: Zygon. Volume 54:Issue 1(2019)
• Page Start: 149
• Page End: 155
• Publication Date: 2019-02-17
• Subjects: Apocalyptic -- artificial intelligence -- millenarianism -- Panacea Society; Religion and science -- Periodicals; Electronic journals; 200
• DOI: 10.1111/zygo.12489
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0591-2385

Abstract

Abstract: This is an introduction to the Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Apocalypticism, which resulted from a conference hosted by the Centre for the Critical Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements (CenSAMM) in Bedford, UK. The introduction provides a brief history of scholarly work in the intersections of apocalypticism and artificial intelligence and of the emergence of CenSAMM from a millenarian religious community, the Panacea Society. It concludes by pointing toward the contributions of the symposium's essays.