Religion2Vec, or; Imagining Religion and AI

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“Imagine the archive of the world’s religions and their histories made readily accessible to you in a single application. Imagine never having to think again about everything you want to know about religion, spirituality, the fate of god and law. Imagine a multi-modal personal assistant applying its “intelligence” across different sensory and epistemic domains. Imagine a machine that achieves total and coordinated capture of the spiritual and the metaphysical, the biological and material environments, the ideas and practices that together comprise religion. Imagine a tool for embedding many registers, varieties, and worlds of religion into multidimensional vector spaces. Imagine a device for retrieving an all-encompassing answer to any question you may have that has anything to do, or not, with religion.”

Lecture. “The Religion of AI Observed: Notes from a Season of Revival.” University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Roetzel Family Lecture. Minneapolis, MN. March 24, 2026.