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Avital Balwit writes in The Free Press that frontier AI development is forcing technologists to confront questions of faith and the divine through ambitions such as curing diseases and halting aging

Essay titled 'Searching for God in Silicon Valley' appears on thefp.com.

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https://www.thefp.com/p/silicon-valley-faith-finding-god

7:55 AM · May 23, 2026 View on X

I felt a jholt of jhoy when my prediction that jhourney would be mentioned came true. I have had similar thoughts in the past: in the eventual future, with intelligence solved and work made obsolete, the deep question of what matters is hard to avoid, so I expect people progressively will get back to the ancient hobby of staring at beautiful things and chanting until they get oneshotted by What There Is. I was trying to pill @livgorton to go on christian retreats, there are some around the bay, maybe you could do it together :_) Everyone should see the thing! The thing is indeed there, and always has been!

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https://www.thefp.com/p/silicon-valley-faith-finding-god

2:55 PM · May 23, 2026 · 282 Views
3:03 PM · May 23, 2026 · 41 Views

New essay for @TheFP on searching for God in Silicon Valley.

"They are building something that has brought them, unexpectedly, to the edge of where He would be."

2:55 PM · May 23, 2026 · 367 Views