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| A Religion to 'Raise' and Worship 'Artificial Intelligence God' Started by Engineer
A SELF-DRIVING car engineer has created a religion based on creating and worshipping an Artificial Intelligence (AI) God. Anthony Levandowski, a Silicon Valley engineer, has established a church devoted to worshipping an AI construct. He intends to gather people together who are interested in creating AI that can surpass humans' intellectual flexibility and cognitive skill. In an interview, Mr Levandowski said: "I wanted a way for everybody to participate in this, to be able to shape it. If you're not a software engineer, you can still help. "It also removes the ability for people to say, 'Oh, he's just doing this to make money.'" Mr Levandowski's church, called Way of the Future, also claims to look forward to an event known as "the Singularity". The Singularity is defined as the moment that AI develops to become better at problem solving than the humans who built it. Speaking of the transition, Mr Levandowski said: "In the future, if something is much, much smarter, there's going to