| Is a secular religion propelling the AI race? Last month, a man hurried up the driveway of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s San Francisco compound and lobbed a flaming Molotov cocktail at the gate — an attack that ratcheted up tensions in Silicon Valley between AI doomers and accelerationists. But in the view of philosopher Émile P. Torres, these divisions are ultimately familial. A few years ago, Torres and computer scientist Timnit Gebru introduced the acronym TESCREAL, which contends that an overlapping bundle of futuristic beliefs is propelling the race for artificial general intelligence. And while it has its critics, Torres argues TESCREAL is effectively a “secular religion,” big enough to encompass a “clash of eschatologies” and that has shaped all the major AI companies today. “TESCREALism promises that you can gain immortality, you will eventually live in paradise where suffering has been abolished, and you can create a heaven in the literal heavens,” Torres told Hayden Royster, who reported the story for RNS. Top Stories | (RNS) — Philosopher Émile P. Torres contends that a bundle of techno-utopian ideologies is ubiquitous in Silicon Valley. AI ‘doomers’ and ‘accelerationists’ may be locked in a ‘clash of eschatologies,’ but Torres sees them all as part of the same futuristic faith. |
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