Former Google engineer creates religion where a robot is considered God

Anthony Levandowski is known and admired for his experience with robotics, although his name has recently gained negative contours. And now the man who played an important role for the development of automation vehicles may be about to get into the spotlights again, but for a very unusual reason.

Reporter Mark Harris, who writes for the Backchannel, discovered that Levandowski founded a religious organization that has robots as a divine figure. Named ‘Way of the Future,’ the entity was registered in September 2015, but little is known about its intentions.

The foundation paper only indicates that the idea of ‘​​Way of the Future’ is ‘to develop and promote the realization of a divinity based on artificial intelligence’, and that he intends, ‘through knowledge and devotion to the divinity, contribute to the improvement of the society ‘.

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Levandowski appears as CEO and president of the organization, and it comes as no surprise that a person with his personality is behind something like that. He was one of the pillars for the development of initiatives by both Google and Uber in the sense of putting cars without drivers on the streets, so much that both now face in court because Levandowski would have brought Google technology to Uber when he jumped of one company the other.

The Backchannel report that revealed the opening of the church brought several interviews with people from Levandowski’s coexistence, and it is clear that he always had a certain obsession with the idea that one day robots will take over the world, transforming humans in a subcategory. One such person, for example, commented that the former comrade wanted to control the Earth, ‘and robots were the means to do it.’

‘He was talking about starting a new country on an island,’ the witness said. Exchanges of messages between him and Uber founder and former CEO Travis Kalanick corroborate these claims because they reveal that Levandowski commented to the then chief: ‘Let’s take the world. One robot at a time. ‘

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