Book Talk: Greg Epstein on his new book Tech Agnostic

The Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT is excited to welcome Greg Epstein, the Humanist Chaplain at Harvard & MIT, for a talk on his new book Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World’s Most Powerful Religion, and Why it Desperately Needs a Reformation.

In the 100 or so days since Tech Agnostic’s publication, Elon Musk has more than doubled his wealth, to nearly half a trillion dollars; Peter Thiel has gone public as a promoter of Christianity in Silicon Valley, proclaiming Donald Trump to be the herald of the “apokálypsis,” (his spelling); and Bill Gates has speculated that humanity will need a “new religion or a new philosophy” to deal with the change that AI is soon to cause. The question, then, would appear to be: what to do with messianic figures who acquire so much power that the truth of their message seems to be beside the point? Epstein will help us think through this and other hard questions that his book addresses.

Please contact Learning and Events Coordinator Claire Sadar if you are interested in attending.