God in the Machine: Faith and Religion in the Age of AI

Are we building machines in the image of God—or gods in the image of machines? In a world hurtling toward artificial superintelligence, God in the Machine: Faith and Religion in the Age of AI explores one of the most urgent and overlooked questions of our time: what happens to faith, spirituality, and the soul when machines begin to think, decide, and even believe? From sacred algorithms and robot priests to digital afterlives and techno-messianic visions, this book offers a sweeping, thought-provoking journey into the strange new intersection between religion and technology. It confronts the promises of transhumanism, the moral dilemmas of automated ethics, and the rise of AI as a quasi-divine force in Silicon Valley's apocalyptic imagination. Drawing from theology, philosophy, and cutting-edge AI research, God in the Machine investigates: Whether machines can make moral decisions—and what happens when they do The spiritual implications of mind-uploading, digital immortality, and reincarnation in the cloud Why tech elites are inventing new religions—and what they mean for the rest of us How faith communities are adapting (or resisting) the rise of autonomous systems The controversial use of AI in rituals, scriptures, and prayer itself For skeptics, believers, technologists, and theologians alike, this is a provocative and timely exploration of a future already unfolding—one in which the line between the sacred and the synthetic is rapidly disappearing. What happens when salvation gets an upgrade? This book doesn't offer all the answers. But it asks the questions we can't afford to ignore.