Ex-Google Engineer Starts Religion that Worships Artificial Intelligence

Anthony Levandowski, the multi-millionaire engineer who once led Google's self-driving car program, has founded a religious organization to "develop and promote the realization of a Godhead based on Artificial Intelligence." Levandowski created The Way of the Future in 2015, but it was unreported until now. He serves as the CEO and President of the group, which seeks to improve society through "understanding and worship of the Godhead," according to Wired. A divine AI may still be far off, but Levandowski has made a start at providing AI with an earthly incarnation… Levandowski has done perhaps more than anyone else to propel transportation toward its own Singularity, a time when automated cars, trucks and aircraft either free us from the danger and drudgery of human operation -- or decimate mass transit, encourage urban sprawl, and enable deadly bugs and hacks. Levandowski worships the "Godhead" of AI, but there are people who are worried, too.