Ex-Google engineer Anthony Levandowski has closed his artificial intelligence church
Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Anthony Levandowski, a former Google engineer convicted of stealing self-driving car secrets, is closing his artificial intelligence-focused church Way of the Future (WOTF), TechCrunch reports. It's a somewhat inauspicious end to the church's goal of pursuing the realization, acceptance, and worship of a Godhead based on Artificial Intelligence (AI)," in preparation for the Singularity. Now humanity will be left to deal with rampant AI without the religion's guidance.
Levandowski started the process of shuttering WOTF in June 2020, according to documents filed in the state of California found by TechCrunch. WOTF never had regular meetings or a physical church building. The church's funds, totaling $175,172, have been donated to the...