{"id":6470,"date":"2017-09-28T09:12:02","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T23:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=6470"},"modified":"2017-09-28T09:12:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T23:12:02","slug":"engineer-at-the-centre-of-the-ubergoogle-patent-lawsuit-starts-new-religion-that-worships-an-ai-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/engineer-at-the-centre-of-the-ubergoogle-patent-lawsuit-starts-new-religion-that-worships-an-ai-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineer at the centre of the Uber\/Google patent lawsuit starts new religion that worships an AI god"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/27130505\/levandoswkilead.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In September 2015, the multi-millionaire engineer [Anthony Levandowski] at the heart of the patent and trade secrets lawsuit between Uber and Waymo, Google\u2019s self-driving car company, founded a religious organization called Way of the Future. Its purpose, according to previously unreported state filings, is nothing less than to \u201cdevelop and promote the realization of a Godhead based on Artificial Intelligence.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m honestly not making this up, I swear!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"source-link\"><span class=\"source-link\">Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/god-is-a-bot-and-anthony-levandowski-is-his-messenger\/\">The Self Driving Car Whiz Who Fell from Grace | WIRED<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In September 2015, the multi-millionaire engineer [Anthony Levandowski] at the heart of the patent and trade secrets lawsuit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[482],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}