Robert M Geraci
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 170271 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Robert M Geraci |
| NOMBRES | Robert M |
| APELLIDO | Geraci |
| FIRMA | GERACI R M |
| AFILIACIONES | Manhattan College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6691-5698 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
The Virtuous Well
Visions of AI superintelligence and evolution from human to posthuman machines cast a shadow over current AI. Whether plausible or not, they circulate globally. Ethnographic and cross-cultural research promotes AI values by provincializing Western perspectives and putting them into conversation with non-Western views. Drawing on research in Korea and India, this paper argues that virtuous AI and AI-assisted virtue intertwine with the political pr…
Cultural theology and social robotics
Developing ethical artificial intelligence has become crucial, especially as advancements in machine learning lead to the deployment of AI across society. Drawing on religious and cultural values exposes lacunae in current approaches to robotics and AI, and creates opportunities to design AI for human flourishing. The Korean value of jeong (empathy, solidarity, and mutual obligation) offers an example of such cultural theology for AI development.…
Artificial Canon
Widespread concern over threats that pose an existential risk to the entire human species has provoked increasing attention and commitment to religious views of digital technology. These apocalyptic expectations of a glorious new digital world draw on American Christianity and play a visible role in tech culture and public life. The reshaping of traditional religions into new, but parallel, technological religions is characterized by a triple tra…
The Lawful Empire
Futures of Artificial Intelligence
Twenty-first-century life is increasingly governed by artificial intelligence (AI) technologies such as machine learning, big data analysis, facial recognition, and robotics. For decades, an ideology of apocalyptic progress and cosmic transformation has accompanied the advancement of AI in the U.S.; that vision is intimately connected to transhumanism—the idea that humanity can transcend its limits, even mortality, using technology. Based on cont…
Futures of Artificial Intelligence
Religion Robotics
Religious Ritual in a Scientific Space
An ethnographic approach to the South Indian festival Ayudha Puja reveals that the celebration plays a role in the construction of scientific communities. Ayudha Puja has the ability to absorb westerners, non-Hindus, and non-Brahmins into Indian science and engineering communities and is thus widely practiced in South Indian industry and academia. The practice of Ayudha Puja thus parallels what M. N. Srinivas labels "Sanskritization." Within Indi…
Pragmatism and Prejudice
Grotesque Gaming
Videogames and virtual worlds that provoke dread and horror have grown in popularity throughout the twenty-first century. Based on the online games Requiem: Memento Mori and DayZ, this article shows how players relish such dread and enjoy landscapes of the monstrous and the grotesque in order to engage with and tentatively conquer inner fears and anxieties. As such, the game worlds continue the age-old work of horror—to exorcise one's inner fears…
A tale of two futures
Different religions have strikingly different views of history; but the emergence of modern technology offers promises of salvation that can draw equally on Christian views of time in the US and Hindu views of time in India. For centuries, Christian theologians incorporated technological progress into their linear vision of history, which will end with an eschatological conflict and the rise of the New Jerusalem. In the US today, techno-enthusias…
A Novel Society
Science fiction—as a literature of the fantastic—has become a part of the religious landscape of modernity. In a secular world, not all of religious activity is explicitly so; indeed, much contemporary religious thought and practice happens implicitly, in ostensibly secular arenas. Yet the human need for meaning and enchantment has gone undiminished in the age of secularism, and science fiction is a powerful route for such desires. In China Miévi…
Enlightening the Galaxy
The role of political persuasion in Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR) affirms the serious nature and even educational value possible in video games designed with entertainment as their primary motivation. Within SWTOR, players wrestle with political conflicts first posited centuries ago by Enlightenment thinkers and have an opportunity to use the game as a springboard for political reflection in the contemporary world. Based upon surveys and in…
There and Back Again
Popular science and science-fiction depictions of immortality through uploading minds are “authentic fakes”: secular practices that do authentic religious work for transhumanist communities. Although in the 1980s science fiction departed from this practice and rejected transhuman promises of “mind-uploading” and immortality through technology, in the twenty-first century science fiction has rejoined pop science as a genre advocating transhumanist…
Martial Bliss
Apocalyptic AI
Journal Article Apocalyptic AI: Religion and the Promise of Artificial Intelligence Get access Robert M. Geraci Robert M. Geraci Robert M. Geraci, Department of Religious Studies, Manhattan College, Riverdale, NY 10471, USA E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 76, Issue 1, March 2008, Pages 138–166, https://doi.org/10.1093/j…
Apocalyptic AI
Journal Article Apocalyptic AI: Religion and the Promise of Artificial Intelligence Get access Robert M. Geraci Robert M. Geraci Robert M. Geraci, Department of Religious Studies, Manhattan College, Riverdale, NY 10471, USA E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 76, Issue 1, March 2008, Pages 138–166, https://doi.org/10.1093/j…
A tale of two futures
Different religions have strikingly different views of history; but the emergence of modern technology offers promises of salvation that can draw equally on Christian views of time in the US and Hindu views of time in India. For centuries, Christian theologians incorporated technological progress into their linear vision of history, which will end with an eschatological conflict and the rise of the New Jerusalem. In the US today, techno-enthusias…
Religious Ritual in a Scientific Space
An ethnographic approach to the South Indian festival Ayudha Puja reveals that the celebration plays a role in the construction of scientific communities. Ayudha Puja has the ability to absorb westerners, non-Hindus, and non-Brahmins into Indian science and engineering communities and is thus widely practiced in South Indian industry and academia. The practice of Ayudha Puja thus parallels what M. N. Srinivas labels "Sanskritization." Within Indi…
Cultural theology and social robotics
Developing ethical artificial intelligence has become crucial, especially as advancements in machine learning lead to the deployment of AI across society. Drawing on religious and cultural values exposes lacunae in current approaches to robotics and AI, and creates opportunities to design AI for human flourishing. The Korean value of jeong (empathy, solidarity, and mutual obligation) offers an example of such cultural theology for AI development.…
Pragmatism and Prejudice
Grotesque Gaming
Videogames and virtual worlds that provoke dread and horror have grown in popularity throughout the twenty-first century. Based on the online games Requiem: Memento Mori and DayZ, this article shows how players relish such dread and enjoy landscapes of the monstrous and the grotesque in order to engage with and tentatively conquer inner fears and anxieties. As such, the game worlds continue the age-old work of horror—to exorcise one's inner fears…
Enlightening the Galaxy
The role of political persuasion in Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR) affirms the serious nature and even educational value possible in video games designed with entertainment as their primary motivation. Within SWTOR, players wrestle with political conflicts first posited centuries ago by Enlightenment thinkers and have an opportunity to use the game as a springboard for political reflection in the contemporary world. Based upon surveys and in…
Apocalyptic AI
Journal Article Apocalyptic AI: Religion and the Promise of Artificial Intelligence Get access Robert M. Geraci Robert M. Geraci Robert M. Geraci, Department of Religious Studies, Manhattan College, Riverdale, NY 10471, USA E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 76, Issue 1, March 2008, Pages 138–166, https://doi.org/10.1093/j…
There and Back Again
Popular science and science-fiction depictions of immortality through uploading minds are “authentic fakes”: secular practices that do authentic religious work for transhumanist communities. Although in the 1980s science fiction departed from this practice and rejected transhuman promises of “mind-uploading” and immortality through technology, in the twenty-first century science fiction has rejoined pop science as a genre advocating transhumanist…
Martial Bliss
A Novel Society
Science fiction—as a literature of the fantastic—has become a part of the religious landscape of modernity. In a secular world, not all of religious activity is explicitly so; indeed, much contemporary religious thought and practice happens implicitly, in ostensibly secular arenas. Yet the human need for meaning and enchantment has gone undiminished in the age of secularism, and science fiction is a powerful route for such desires. In China Miévi…
Enlightening the Galaxy
The role of political persuasion in Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR) affirms the serious nature and even educational value possible in video games designed with entertainment as their primary motivation. Within SWTOR, players wrestle with political conflicts first posited centuries ago by Enlightenment thinkers and have an opportunity to use the game as a springboard for political reflection in the contemporary world. Based upon surveys and in…
Grotesque Gaming
Videogames and virtual worlds that provoke dread and horror have grown in popularity throughout the twenty-first century. Based on the online games Requiem: Memento Mori and DayZ, this article shows how players relish such dread and enjoy landscapes of the monstrous and the grotesque in order to engage with and tentatively conquer inner fears and anxieties. As such, the game worlds continue the age-old work of horror—to exorcise one's inner fears…
A tale of two futures
Different religions have strikingly different views of history; but the emergence of modern technology offers promises of salvation that can draw equally on Christian views of time in the US and Hindu views of time in India. For centuries, Christian theologians incorporated technological progress into their linear vision of history, which will end with an eschatological conflict and the rise of the New Jerusalem. In the US today, techno-enthusias…
Religious Ritual in a Scientific Space
An ethnographic approach to the South Indian festival Ayudha Puja reveals that the celebration plays a role in the construction of scientific communities. Ayudha Puja has the ability to absorb westerners, non-Hindus, and non-Brahmins into Indian science and engineering communities and is thus widely practiced in South Indian industry and academia. The practice of Ayudha Puja thus parallels what M. N. Srinivas labels "Sanskritization." Within Indi…
Pragmatism and Prejudice
Religion Robotics
Futures of Artificial Intelligence
Twenty-first-century life is increasingly governed by artificial intelligence (AI) technologies such as machine learning, big data analysis, facial recognition, and robotics. For decades, an ideology of apocalyptic progress and cosmic transformation has accompanied the advancement of AI in the U.S.; that vision is intimately connected to transhumanism—the idea that humanity can transcend its limits, even mortality, using technology. Based on cont…
Futures of Artificial Intelligence
The Lawful Empire
Artificial Canon
Widespread concern over threats that pose an existential risk to the entire human species has provoked increasing attention and commitment to religious views of digital technology. These apocalyptic expectations of a glorious new digital world draw on American Christianity and play a visible role in tech culture and public life. The reshaping of traditional religions into new, but parallel, technological religions is characterized by a triple tra…
The Virtuous Well
Visions of AI superintelligence and evolution from human to posthuman machines cast a shadow over current AI. Whether plausible or not, they circulate globally. Ethnographic and cross-cultural research promotes AI values by provincializing Western perspectives and putting them into conversation with non-Western views. Drawing on research in Korea and India, this paper argues that virtuous AI and AI-assisted virtue intertwine with the political pr…
Cultural theology and social robotics
Developing ethical artificial intelligence has become crucial, especially as advancements in machine learning lead to the deployment of AI across society. Drawing on religious and cultural values exposes lacunae in current approaches to robotics and AI, and creates opportunities to design AI for human flourishing. The Korean value of jeong (empathy, solidarity, and mutual obligation) offers an example of such cultural theology for AI development.…
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