ABSTRACT
Religion. Artificial intelligence (AI). Two objects seemingly in motion, heading past each other in specific directions. Religion is often seen as coming to us from the past. A long past of rituals, beliefs, traditions, laws, ethics, and institutions. AI is often seen as an emerging technology, or entity, seemingly coming to us from our imagined futures. A modern project looking to the future. A new materialistic approach to understanding one of the qualities that we generally believe makes us different from other beings on this planet: our intelligence.
