Not from The Onion:
Artificial intelligence and autonomous robots should be encouraged to become religious, a US reverend has said.
Reverend Christopher Benek, associate pastor of Providence Presbyterian Church in Florida, believes advanced forms of artificial intelligence should be welcomed into the Christian faith.
“I don’t see Christ’s redemption limited to human beings,” Benek said in an interview with the futurist Zoltan Istvan. “It’s redemption to all of creation, even AI.
“If AI is autonomous, then we should encourage it to participate in Christ’s redemptive purposes in the world.”
Which makes me immediately think of Robert Silverberg’s 1971 short story ‘Good News From The Vatican” about a robot pope being elected.
But Christians are robots!
But if robots can think, why would they join any church?
And that, children, is how the Daleks came to be.
Lolol!
These are not the droids you’re looking for.
I was hoping to be rid of computers when I got to heaven.