Journalists often quote Yudkowsky as an AI “expert,” but he never attended college and has no formal technical training. Even as they automate some programming jobs, tech companies are recruiting theologians and Talmudic scholars to help guide their enterprises. AI encodes not just technical capacities but also its creators’ convictions about what Yudkowsky called the “Meaning of Life.” Even if the tech industry continues to find religion, its deeper faith in a synthetic divinity, conjured from silicon, may still prevail. The post How tech found religion appeared first on Washington Post.