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  "path": "/2026/05/06/is-a-secular-religion-propelling-the-ai-race/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-06T17:41:22.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "Alternative Faiths",
    "Faiths",
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    "AI religion",
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  "textContent": "(RNS) — Philosopher Émile P. Torres contends that a bundle of techno-utopian ideologies is ubiquitous in Silicon Valley. AI ‘doomers’ and ‘accelerationists’ may be locked in a ‘clash of eschatologies,’ but Torres sees them all as part of the same futuristic faith.",
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