In today's fascinating episode, Harvard/MIT's humanist chaplain (and bestselling author!) Greg Epstein details how tech has become our foremost religion... and why this new religion needs reformation 😈
More on Greg:
• Serves as humanist chaplain at both Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• Wrote the bestselling book “Good without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe."
Today’s episode focuses largely on Greg’s latest book, "Tech Agnostic", and should be interesting to everyone. In today’s episode, Greg details:
• How technology has supplanted traditional religion as society's most powerful belief system.
• Why Silicon Valley's promise of technological salvation parallels religious prophecies.
• The concerning parallel between AI's "singularity" and religious end-of-times narratives.
• How we can embrace technological progress while maintaining our humanity.
• Why building genuine human connections matters more than chasing technological utopias.
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