Today, I'm joined by Prof. Dr. Beth Singler, Assistant Professor in Digital Religion(s) at the University of Zurich and Rev. Dr. Joshua K. Smith, Pastor and Theologian, to discuss digital religion, and our spiritual identity online.This episode of The Future of You covers:<ul><li>The trends in digital religion</li><li>How people are developing communities and ideas about technology online</li><li>How AI shapes and molds what we are doing spiritually. </li><li>Our perspective bias at the dawn of a new millennium</li><li>Anthropomorphism of AI</li><li>Whether AI can help us become better moral beings</li><li>Corporatist agency, personal agency, and AI politicians</li><li>The ongoing outsourcing of our own decision making to AI</li><li>Nihilism, apocalypticism, and the reemergence of the Satanic and occult aesthetic. </li></ul>The Future of You: Can Your Identity Survive 21st Century Technology?: <a href='https://www.amazon.co.uk/Future-You-Identity-21st-Century-Technology-ebook/dp/B08XBN4GBB'>www.amazon.co.uk/Future-You-Identity-21st-Century-Technology-ebook/dp/B08XBN4GBB</a>Links and references at: <a href='https://www.traceyfollows.com/tag/podcast/'>www.traceyfollows.com</a>

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AI, Religion and Identity #12

Hello, welcome to the Future of You podcast. Here we’re going to investigate and analyse all the ways emerging technologies are going to affect our identity. We used to argue about whether personal identity was in the mind or in the body; but now that psychology of the self and the biology of self has been joined by a third dimension - the technology of the self. In a digital, data-driven world, Facebook gets a say in verifying who we are, medical science can alter our genetic make-up, and AI will help us create our digital twin - just how...