Anthony Lewandowski, founder of the AI Church. Wikimedia Commons
The first artificial intelligence church that appeared in anticipation of the emergence of a’superintelligent machine’ far superior to humans was closed. A former Google autonomous vehicle development engineer who founded a church that worships artificial intelligence. Anthony Lewandowski(Anthony Levandowski) officially disbanded the church at the end of last year, US media reports. Lewandowski revealed that he founded an artificial intelligence church named’Way of the Future’ in September 2015 through a filing for exemption from religious organizations filed with the California State Government and the IRS in 2017. There is a bar. In this document, he stated that the purpose of the artificial intelligence church is “to contribute to the development of society through the realization, acceptance, and worship of the divinity based on artificial intelligence,” and he made himself a’priest (dean)’ and representative (CEO) of the church. I specified. According to a report on the US online technology media’TechCrunch’, the artificial intelligence church began dissolution in June of last year. He said in an interview with’TechCrunch’, “I have been thinking about closing the church for a long time.” Then, after seeing the’Black Lives Matter’ campaign that spread after the George Floyd incident, who died due to over-repression by the police in May last year, he thought it was time to put the church funds where it is needed right now. He said it took action. The church fund he reported to the National Tax Service in 2017 (about 190 million won) was donated to the Self Defense and Education Fund (LDEF) of the National Association for the Improvement of the Color of Color (NAACP), a representative black human rights organization in the United States.
Google’s early self-driving car that Lewandowski participated in the development of. Wikimedia Commons
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A former Google autonomous driving developer… pardoned after conviction for technology leak
The discovery of the establishment of an artificial intelligence church was when he was caught in a legal dispute over the alleged leak of Google technology. He was one of the early team members of the Google autonomous driving project in 2009, and he left Google in 2016 and founded Otto, a self-driving truck developer, and immediately sold it to car-sharing company Uber. Was caught in a case. Afterwards, he was fired from Uber and eventually convicted and sentenced to 18 months in prison last year. However, he was rescued last month by pardoning President Donald Trump, who was about to retire. Until now, artificial intelligence churches were legally similar to other churches, but there were no buildings, religious rituals, or events like ordinary churches. It was a personal act of pursuing one’s own belief system.
The logo of’The Way of the Future’, an artificial intelligence church that is now closed
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The belief that artificial intelligence will change the world remains unchanged
The core of his belief system, which even established an artificial intelligence church, is that’the birth of superintelligent machines is inevitable’. In an interview with technology media’Wired’ in 2017, he said, “If you ask people if computers can be smarter than humans, 99.9% will say that it is science fiction, but this will inevitably happen,” he said. “I will change all aspects of human existence. I believe that change is coming.” Futurists call the irreversible moment when computers overtake human abilities as singularity. On the other hand, Lewandowski uses the term transition instead of singularity. He said, “Right now, humans are in charge of the Earth, but if something much smarter than humans emerges in the future, there will be a’transition’ of the position of responsibility,” he said. “I emphasized. The now-disappeared’Road to the Future’ website explains the purpose of the artificial intelligence church like this. “Rather than rebelling against your talented child or binding him up because he might take your job, don’t you want to grow beyond your dreams of vain success and make mistakes? We encourage machines to do what we can’t do? And we want to take care of the planet in a way that we wouldn’t be able to do it ourselves. We also have rights, just as animals have rights, so if our creations (‘machines’ or whatever we call them) show signs of intelligence, they should also have rights. I believe you should not be afraid of this, you should be optimistic about its potential.” Lewandowski said he has no plans to rebuild AI churches, but his beliefs in pursuing AI churches remain unchanged and that AI will radically change the way people live and work. “Such artificial intelligence has a positive effect on society. He added that realizing the positive role of artificial intelligence is his main job, he said. “Nopil Kwak, Senior Reporter [email protected]