person
Meghan O'Gieblyn
Essayist; 'God, Human, Animal, Machine'
Essayist and author of 'God, Human, Animal, Machine' (2021), a literary investigation of how religious metaphors structure the AI age and how loss of those metaphors shapes contemporary epistemology.
current Essayist, Independent
Strategy positions
AI skepticmixed
AGI risk narratives overstated; real harms are mundane and currentArgues AGI discourse inherits and re-enacts religious frames, incarnation, eschatology, the soul, and that recognising those origins changes what we should make of the predictions on offer.
Most of the questions we ask about AI, what it knows, whether it has a soul, what we owe it, were first asked by theologians. We have not stopped being theological; we have only forgotten that we are.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.