The Best Books on AI and Faith
Most books on AI ignore religion, and most Christian books on AI are worried pamphlets. A few take both seriously. Start with O’Gieblyn and see where she sends you.
For our own takes, try the golem, Babel as an alignment failure and what the Church would say if a machine claimed to be conscious.
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God, Human, Animal, Machine
Meghan O'Gieblyn
Meghan O'Gieblyn left Bible school, read her way through transhumanism, and noticed she had heard the story before. Beautiful, personal and the best thing written on this subject.
How the machines really go wrong
The Alignment Problem
Brian Christian
No theology here. It is the clearest account of why AI does what you said and not what you meant, which is an old problem in a new form.
The deep history
Golem
Moshe Idel
A scholarly history of Jewish traditions on making artificial people. Dense, and full of surprises.
What the powerful think
Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit
Kissinger, Mundie and Schmidt
Henry Kissinger's last book, with Craig Mundie and Eric Schmidt. Note the title they chose.
The original alarm
Superintelligence
Nick Bostrom
Bostrom's 2014 book set the terms for the argument still going on. Heavy going, and worth knowing.
One lost book a week
What it says, why it was cut, and which edition is worth your money. Plus the full reading list today.