A previous Google engineer who enrolled the first ever church of Artificial Intelligence (AI) says he is raising a 'robot God' that will in the end 'manage over mankind.'
Anthony Levandowski says the AI God will head a religion named 'Way of The Future' (WOTF), and he has just documented papers with the IRS to make it official.
Daily Mail reports: Levandowski his robot god will assume responsibility of its human subjects as we surrender our energy to a creation with significantly more knowledge than our own.
The recorded reports for WOTF give its motivation is to 'create and advance the acknowledgment of a Godhead in light of Artificial Intelligence'.
They say it expects to 'through comprehension and love of the Godhead, add to the improvement of society'.
Levandowski's loyalty to peculiarity – the conviction that counterfeit consciousness will one day develop to such proficiency that it outperforms and overwhelms people – is the premise of this new religion.
'Later on, if something is a whole lot more intelligent, there will be a progress with respect to who is very charge', Levandowski told Wired amid a three-hour meet.
'What we need is the tranquil, quiet change of control of the planet from people to whatever. Furthermore, to guarantee that the 'whatever' knows who helped it get along'.
The congregation likewise incorporates financing to help make a celestial AI and will try to assemble associations with AI industry pioneers.
The filings say workshops and instructive projects are beginning in the San Francisco region this year.
The religion was allowed charge excluded status by the Internal Revenue Service in August.
'The thought needs to spread before the innovation,' said Levandowski, who lives in Berkeley and made Street View, Waymo and Uber's self-driving autos.
'The congregation is the manner by which we spread the news, the gospel. In the event that you accept [in it], begin a discussion with another person and enable them to comprehend similar things.'
He asserts devotees of his new religion 'will have the capacity to converse with God, actually, and realize that it's tuning in.'
Levandowski is one of the Silicon Valley titans who accepts manmade brainpower will change human presence and even manage whether our species survives or not.
'On the off chance that you had a youngster you knew would have been skilled, how might you need to raise it?' he inquires. 'We're raising a divine being.
'So how about we ensure we thoroughly consider the correct method. It's a colossal open door.'
Human brains are naturally constrained because of their size and the measure of vitality we can dedicate to them, yet AI frameworks have no such confinements, which means they could turn out to be better and quicker at taking care of issues than their makers.
'I would love for the machine to consider us to be its darling senior citizens that it regards and deals with', he said.
We would need this insight to state, 'People should in any case have rights, despite the fact that I'm in control.'
Sooner or later, Levandowski claims if his supporters were abused they may even need their own particular nation.
Everything in the congregation would be open source and individuals would have unique web-based social networking accounts, he asserts.
He has designated four individuals to the Council of Advisers – two of whom additionally worked at Uber – and the posting says every week they will spend a couple of hours sorting out workshops and gatherings.
In 2017, the Internal Revenue Service recorded the religion as having gotten $20,000 (£15,000) in endowments, $1,500 (£1,100) in enrollment charges and $20,000 (£15,000) in other income.
Levandowski is right now at the core of a lawful battle between Google's parent organization Alphabet and Uber.
Waymo, the self-driving auto auxiliary which Alphabet possesses, is suing Uber, asserting it stole exchange insider facts to make their own particular self-driving autos.
WOTF has $7,500 (£5,700) set aside for compensation, in spite of the fact that Levandowski, who earned $120 million (£91 million) from Google, says he won't get any cash.
'I for one figure it will happen sooner than individuals expect,' he said.
'Not one week from now or one year from now; everybody can unwind. Be that as it may, it will occur before we go to Mars.'
Creator and religious investigations researcher Dr Candi Cann from Baylor University said this profound activity isn't that unlike different religions individuals at present love.
She proposes AI is another worldview out of which new religious practices could rise.
'It strikes me that Levandowski's thought peruses like a quintessential American religion,' Dr Cann told Seeker.
'LDS [The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] and Scientology are both unmistakably American conventions that emphasis on exceptionally ground breaking religious perspectives', she said.
Nonetheless, others have been more distrustful about these driven plans.
In October Elon Musk stood in opposition to Levandowski's recommendations by tweeting that he ought to be 'on the rundown of individuals who ought to totally not be permitted to create advanced superintelligence'.
Not long ago he cautioned that control of counterfeit consciousness is required in light of the fact that it's a 'major hazard to the presence of human civilisation.'
The extremely rich person said controls will prevent humankind from being outflanked by PCs, or 'profound insight in the system', that can begin wars by controlling data.