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商品描述
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rarely out of the news or the public imagination. Images of red-eyed Terminators illustrate press accounts of incremental advances in medical diagnosis, facial recognition, natural language processing, and robotics. Such advances are transforming society through measurable impacts on people's decisions and opportunities.
Religion and Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction explores an emerging field with a religious studies approach, drawing on cultural and digital anthropological methods to demonstrate the entanglements of religion and AI, our imaginaries of these objects and our ideas about their utopian or dystopian futures. It addresses key topics, including the following:
- What AI is and is not.
- How religions are reacting to AI with examples of rejection, adoption, and adaptation.
- How established religions understand creation and place human-like AI within that.
- How overtly secular and even 'new atheist' groups understand AI as a tool for liberation from human evolution and religion.
- Religious visions of superintelligent AI.
This engaging book is essential for anyone considering the relationship between religion, science and technology, and interested in the questions raised by transhumanism, posthumanism, and new religious movements.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http: //www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under A creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
人工智慧（AI）幾乎總是出現在新聞報導或公眾想像中。紅眼的終結者形象常常用來說明醫療診斷、臉部識別、自然語言處理和機器人技術等領域的漸進式進展。這些進展正在通過對人們的決策和機會產生可衡量的影響來改變社會。
《宗教與人工智慧：導論》探討了一個新興領域，採用宗教研究的方法，利用文化和數位人類學的方法來展示宗教與人工智慧的交織，以及我們對這些對象的想像和對其烏托邦或反烏托邦未來的看法。書中涉及的主要主題包括：
- 人工智慧是什麼以及不是什麼。
- 宗教如何對人工智慧作出反應，包括拒絕、採納和適應的例子。
- 既有宗教如何理解創造，並將類人人工智慧置於其中。
- 明顯世俗甚至「新無神論」團體如何將人工智慧視為從人類進化和宗教中解放的工具。
- 宗教對超智能人工智慧的願景。
這本引人入勝的書籍對於任何考慮宗教、科學與技術之間關係的人來說都是必讀之作，並且對於超人類主義、後人類主義和新宗教運動所提出的問題感興趣的人也具有重要意義。
本書的開放存取版本可在 http://www.taylorfrancis.com 獲得，並已根據創用CC署名-非商業性-禁止改作（CC-BY-NC-ND）4.0許可證提供。
作者簡介
Beth Singler is the Assistant Professor in Digital Religion(s) at the University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland; co-lead of the Media Existential Encounters and Evolving Technology Lab at UZH; an Associate Professor at the Digital Society Initiative at UZH; a Fellow of the International Society for Science and Religion; and a member of the Human Augmentation Research Network.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
貝絲·辛格勒是瑞士蘇黎世大學（UZH）數位宗教助理教授；UZH媒體存在性遭遇與演變技術實驗室的共同負責人；UZH數位社會倡議的副教授；國際科學與宗教學會的研究員；以及人類增強研究網絡的成員。
