Recently, Anthony Levandowsky ended up being fired and still sued by Waymo, a company belonging to the Alphabet group. He was accused of industrial espionage, as he allegedly downloaded 9,7GB of highly sensitive data related to the company's plans for self-driving cars.
The engineer, however, does not seem to have been shaken by all this, and has even created a new religion. The Way of the Future Church aims to promote a divinity based on Artificial Intelligence. It has not yet been constituted as a religion per se, however, documents submitted by the organization to the state of California, in the United States, say that the group's objective is "through the understanding and worship of the Divinity, to contribute to the betterment of society. "
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The article reveals a lack of surprise in all this, since he is one of the main responsible for the development of the technology of autonomous cars of Google and also of Uber.
"He had this weird motivation about robots taking over the world — actually taking over the world, in a military sense," declared an unnamed friend of Levandowski's, also an engineer. "I loved swapping ideas with this guy. I loved that we created a vision of the world that doesn't exist yet and we fell in love with it," he said.
So, what do you think of Levandowski's idea? Do you also believe that artificial intelligence can be superior to humans?
