How to Prevent an Artificial Intelligence God

Humanity's best future will happen with the proper stewarding of science and technology. How can we assure such stewardship? Recently Olivia Solon wrote an article in the Guardian titled Deus ex machine: former Google engineer is developing an AI god that considered the risks surrounding the development of an AI god. The piece was authored because of Wired Magazine's speculation that tech entrepreneur Anthony Levandowski has formed a religious organization for the purpose of potentially developing an AI god. For most Christians such propositions conjure mental images of the golden calf in Exodus.