(Wired) – In recent times, there have been two techno-religious awakenings. Here comes the third?

To recap: If, over the past few decades, tech became the new religion, and then religion became the religion, you could say that AI is now religion operationalized—something definitive yet unexplainable, an instrument we can cast our highest hopes onto and later blame. Our new Sky Daddy.

But here’s my best case for why generative AI is not God: because it’s human. It’s built from a massive trove of human data. Here, I present to you: 10 billion humans plopping personal data into machines. (Read More)